I completely agree with you Debbie. Leave this job to the men. Men and women were created differently. What a mess we have made. Meanwhile, our enemies sit back and lick their chops.

Bill on July 5, 2011 at 1:13 pm

Plesse send “Inside Edition” an autographed copy of “Private Benjamin” so they can have an accurate picture of women in the seals.

tim on July 5, 2011 at 1:25 pm

Yup. There are certain things that don’t need to be fixed in our country. The SEALs are one of them. No matriarchy has ever survived. Men are better suited to doing dangerous jobs, like killing people. Real life isn’t like in Hollywood movies. The truth is that political correctness and feminism have done a great of damage to our country. We shouldn’t mess around with one of the few things that still work in it. Cuz we live in a dangerous world!

NormanF on July 5, 2011 at 1:54 pm

Let’s see what we have here. Women serving in submarines – I understand that two torpedo tubes had to be removed from our subs to accomodate a fully functioning gynecological medical suite.

Women in subs.

Women in combat.

Now, the push is on for women in the Seals. (Sealettes?)

Ending don’t ask, don’t tell.

Continue to cut military spending.
This is the theust of our military today.

Meanwhile, China takes a different approach. Their goal is a 600 ship navy. Obama’s goal is a 6 ship navy – 4 rowboats and 2 canoes……staffed of course with a diverse crew.

PRAY FOR OUR NATION

Herbster on July 5, 2011 at 2:04 pm

Debbie…the entire military Chain of Command is being feminized. Probably seriously started at the beginning of “girlie boy” clintons 1st term. As you may recall, his VERY FIRST action in the Oral Office was to sign an EO to “queer” the military by recruiting fags. At that time the resulting protests from officer and enlisted ranks reached storm proportions and the clinton EO gave way “don’t ask, don’t tell”…O how cute!! So the fairies got in anyway and administration “apparatchiks” were able to compile the names of officers who were candidates for purge based on their opposition to converting the US military into a priviledged sanctuary for fags. Needless to say, the purging process has been underway since the early clinton years…thru the bushie years…so that with the arrival of our present islamo-marxist-faggot faker in the Oral Oriface, the stage was set to basically fag the US military which obama is currently in process of doing. The placement of women on Seal teams, on combat ships including subs and flight crews of combat aircraft is a mere extension of the policies of “blunting” military effectiveness of the US military…thereby making the world safer for the satanist forces.

joesixpack31 on July 5, 2011 at 2:20 pm

The IDF includes women in myriad positions, but NOT in elite special forces units. A few fly choppers, including search and rescue, and an Orthodox woman just earned her wings last week (don’t know if it’s for fighters or helicopters). Most serve in education/training, intelligence, or support, including piloting UAVs. Israel have three advanced subs, with two more on the way. To my knowledge, women don’t serve on subs.

Note to joesixpack31: Gays do serve openly in the IDF.

Raymond in DC on July 5, 2011 at 2:35 pm

I don’t like the possibility – however hopefully, thankfully remote – that women would be allowed to join the SEALS.

There are some trades in the military that are suited to women. Elite forces shoudn’t be among them.

All that being said, for those still complaining about gays and lesbians in the military – WHO FREAKING CARES?

The uniform should be the ultimate equalizer. If a man could take the stresses of training and display a good sense of discipline, whatever he would pick from the menu should be the very last thing to worry about.

This is not fucking Sparta! Everyone get into their place and get the job done right. The End.

The Reverend Jacques on July 5, 2011 at 2:40 pm

Have you ever been to China, Debbie? The MEN who serve in the armed forces there are big and tough looking. Think North Korean soldiers on steroids.

Our soldiers wear lipstick…women and the gay men, and love to get naked in front of the opposite sex (men in this case) and show their goods, often in barracks in Iraq and Afghanistan. Really good discipline, right?

At any one time over 10% of female soldiers are pregnant and incapable of serving in the military. The pregnancy rate rises right as we are entering a war.

Time to bring all of our troops home, have them serve at the U.S. borders and docks, and rebuild the U.S. Navy. Let’s end the social engineering and nation building, and concentrate on U.S. interests. Hawaii and Guam are our military bases in the Orient, and Israel is our only reliable military base in the Middle East. We can have one forward base in England, and nothing else. Build up our navy back into a 600 ship fighting force, as Reagan created, so that no nation can challenge us or our cargo on the seas.

Oh, and fire 90% of the generals and admirals. We have too many desk jockeys, and 5 times the number we had in WWII.

Jonathan E. Grant on July 5, 2011 at 3:28 pm

Inside Edition is mostly into fluff pieces that don’t even come close to relevant. This is the same show that did a piece on Angela “Muslim Barbie” Collins about 5 years ago; you know, the ditz who converted to the death cult mere weeks after 9/11. The whole thing was a proselytizing clip and featured the blonde Muslima singing the praises of Islam and trying to sell gullible viewers on the fairy tale that it’s a religion of peace yadda yadda yadda (all the while ignoring her rocky marriage and subsequent divorce from a Kuwaiti Muslim a couple of years earlier). But I digress…

Alan on July 5, 2011 at 3:29 pm

I know some SEALs. The training is brutal, even for male endurance athletes. One told me about riding on top of a submarine through a school of Portuguese Man of War jellyfish, an excruciating experience, during a training accident. Another told me about his graduation exercise, which required him to swim miles out into the Pacific and collect bird guano in his SCUBA mask and swim back without spilling it. The SEALs and Delta are the physically and mentally toughest we have and with good reason. They are the tip of the spear. I’m all for letting women in the SEALs, if they get the same training as the men with NO Changes. From what I’ve seen, it would take a woman of extraordinary strength to meet the challenge. She would have to have the upper body of a rower or weightlifter. She wouldn’t look like Demi Moore.

fleiter on July 5, 2011 at 4:02 pm

What. The. F—. I have a family member who actually IS a SEAL and I went to his graduation. The key isn’t how physically tough you are, although that’s important. The key is that you have to be psychologically tough enough to drive beyond what your body is telling you it can do. 99.99% of MEN can’t do that. How much you want to bet Shipley and Roberti – the former SEALS who helped her with this report – are either personae on gratae or furiously explaining themselves to their close-knit community.

Sean M. on July 5, 2011 at 4:13 pm

Wonderful. First we’re decreasing our defense at the same time China and the Muslims are getting more aggressive all over the world, and then we’re succumbing to the LGBT (I guess those are the new PC initials), because of course it won’t stop with gays in the military and women in the Seals. These people will want the military to be as weird as these parades they have every year.

Little Al on July 5, 2011 at 4:28 pm

Yup. Women in Israel receive standard infantry training and they can shoot as well as the men but no one pretends they can qualify for elite units. Women are trained to defend themselves and that’s a good thing but no one in Israel would send their daughters to the battlefield.

NormanF on July 5, 2011 at 4:37 pm

Keep the Sealas as they are and the Marines as they are. That way our cutting edge will keep being able to cut.

Occam's Tool on July 5, 2011 at 4:37 pm

Debbie, I agree with your post til a degree, but you have to acknowledge this DS, that not all males are built the same physically, for instance, their males who are bulky, built-up, atheletic, in great shape, etc., to me those type males should serve in the military. Then there are some males who are the complete opposite, thin, average (like me for instance, physically my body type is “average”, and I don’t think I would be able to serve in the military, because pyhsically I’m not built-up and bulky), big-boned, etc., to me those males aren’t qualified to serve in the military.

Now to females, if women want to serve in the military, they have to be in shape, atheletic, and “qualified” to do the job. Those type of females can serve in the military if it’s up to them, now I understand not all females aren’t supposed to serve in the military, if there BBW’s (which I like BTW, that’s right, there some men who are attracted to BBW’s, curvy women and full-figured women and I happen to be one of those males who are attracted to women that look like that), slim/slender, etc. then they shouldn’t serve in the military, because to me there NOT qualified to serve! DS, in the past you’ve written articles like this one and you NEVER said that “women should never serve in the military”.

“A nation is defined by it’s borders, language & culture!”

Sean R. on July 5, 2011 at 5:28 pm

No open thread, what are your thoughts if any on the Anthony verdict?

sharon on July 5, 2011 at 5:29 pm

This is one of the any reasons, why Hollywood has gotten dangerous toward our society. The very thought that they can produce crappy movies where a buck twenty weighing woman can easily whoop a 230lbs, 6ft 6in man is crazy. What’s sad is there are actual young women (brainwashed generation) that believe this with help from the older feminists (the corruptors) that preach ” a woman can do anything a man can do and better”.

Sadly, I saw this in military where the Pentagon hacks were all interested in equal rights under all circumstances during the Clinton adminstration, being lead by the Colorado Senator Pat Schroeder. I just hope we do not get in a big war with an advesary like China that is more interested in hegemony than being politicaly correct with their military.

Mario on July 5, 2011 at 6:59 pm

Women have already successfully ruined most law enforcement jobs, corrections, even the clerical jobs in the military are screwed up due to the way they pimp their assets out for their own benefit. Unless they come up with a different standard for women applying to the SEALs, as they’ve done in every other specialty.

samurai on July 5, 2011 at 7:16 pm

I was a medic in the Army a few years back and even at my fittest I would never have the same strength as a man. Men and women are different…it is a fact. I saw this point proven many times when I was in. If we were the same then the PT test standards would have been the same for both male and female soldiers. Men are just stronger and who would you rather have as a Navy Seal, Ranger, etc.? I was perfectly happy playing a supportive role instead of trying to act like a man. When women are around men in a combat environment it just changes the dynamics…it is human nature. I am glad that I served when I did because things are changing way too much in the military…and not in a good way!

Angela04 on July 5, 2011 at 7:33 pm

To Jameela, the messenger of Satan:

It is people like you that make me very proud to be an infidel…take your Koran and shove it up your arse!

Angela04 on July 5, 2011 at 7:36 pm

Back on target. Since men & women are ‘equal’ I say they should permit chicks in the SEAL program. Just as soon as they are required to REGISTER FOR THE DRAFT, like the rest of the swinging dicks…

#1 Vato on July 5, 2011 at 7:41 pm

Why does everything have to be gender neutral? Should self-loathing lesbians be social arbiters? Is it at all sane and decent to allow a gender with demonstrably less upper body strength to fight head to head with the gender that does? Will Muslim fighters look upon these women as warriors, or merely as a source for slave girls or concubines? I have no desire to engage in such experiments, since the consequences would be so horrific. If these feminists wish to prove their mettle, let them get into an uncontrolled brawl without some outside party bailing them out. I can already guess whose head would be repeatedly smashed against the pavement in such an encounter. Fantasies should be left to literature, since they dissolve more quickly than an ice cube on Venus in the real world.

worry01 on July 5, 2011 at 8:40 pm

If the U.S. or Israel won’t sink the terrorist ‘flotillas’, then I will. I don’t want women in the Navy Seals. But if Angie Jolie Pitt is on a Gaza Flotilla, I will be there in a heartbeat to TORPEDO IT and KILL THE UNEDUCATED SLUT. Angie Voight Jolie-Pitt: I would be very glad to make you STOP HURTING ISRAEL. F*** Y**.

Vicky Gilman on July 5, 2011 at 9:45 pm

Maybe they need the Navy Sealettes.

I don’t mind women serving in special forces. It’s my opinion that they should serve in separate women-only units. That way, their special needs are accommodated in training.

Where the situation requires, women can train and work with the men to obtain results where “mission requirements” can make use of the “special skills and synergies” of men and women.

There’s no sense in wasting human resources. There’s also no sense in mixing women and men when it’s obvious that the performance of a military unit is eroded.

This is America. One size does NOT fit all. I’m sure women can be valuable in special forces. However, they should be separate from men and work with male units only where mission specific requirements make such combinations beneficial.

Our soldiers are adults. Let’s treat them that way.

It’s our politicians who are immature. Let’s treat them that way as well.

There is NO Santa Claus on July 5, 2011 at 11:42 pm

Simple solution, let them in but do not change (lower) the standards, physically or anything else. There might be a female out there who could qualify but it is more than physical it is mental too. In everything they have opened to women to be equal they have lowered the standards. Height is one, another for example with firefighters is how much they can carry, etc. Leave the bar set where it is, no exemptions, no excuse, no free ride. Of course a female that could make it thru SEAL training would probably have to submit to a dna test to prove she is a she.

ender on July 6, 2011 at 1:32 am

What else does one expect from Illuminati media claptraps like Inside Edition…WHICH SHOULD BE OFF THE AIR!

Bob Porrazzo on July 6, 2011 at 6:17 am

I am retired Navy SEAL. I do NOT believe women (even if they can make it through BUD/S) belong in the Teams (for many reasons). I can see the training being modified (like they do in all other training) so that women have different standards (slower times, less push-ups, etc). IMO: standards are standards! As I said at my retirement: “when I joined the Navy, sucking d!@k was illegal; now it’s optional; and I’m retiring before it becomes mandatory.

Below the radar on July 6, 2011 at 7:28 am

in spite of the rhetoric I somehow doubt a woman(any woman) will ever become part of the navy seals.

Chuck on July 6, 2011 at 7:30 am

When women can get drafted into the military (like men) and serve in combat (like men) THEN they will be equal in my book. Until then? Pretend equality all you want.

#1 Vato on July 7, 2011 at 11:18 am

There’s something being forgotten by the feminists: that time of the month. Because that’s just what the US Navy needs–a woman who is on her period swimming through the water…which are often infested with sharks, which can detect minute traces of blood for miles and go berserk when they sense it.

Sure, female SEALs could just take that week off, but what if the team needs to move on a high-value target right now? They have to go in a person down because of menstruation?

I think women in the military is a good thing (why deny patriotic women a chance to serve?), but there are some things they simply cannot do, or should not do.

Sentinel on July 8, 2011 at 3:01 am

The Inside Edition episode you’re talking about took place at Extreme SEAL Experience in Virginia – Senior Chief (ret) Don Shipley and his wife Diane run that company. Their objective is to provide civilians with a taste of what SEALs do, since UBL was sent to his harem in the sky – people want to know what it’s all about – there is no agenda to get women into the SEALs – if you think otherwise go to http://www.extremesealexperience.com and call the number there and ask.

And if you’re wondering who the hell I am, I went through two weeks there last April and am well aware of what’s happening as we receive regular updates from Senior Chief and Mrs. Shipley.

Jonathan on August 25, 2011 at 12:17 pm

I can tell not many of you are familure with the US naval special warfare community and are making some assumptions about The Teams based on either what you have seen on TV or your own agendas or feelings. Let me dispel some of the blanket statements made here first off

For those traditionalists out there who are stuck in their own little world and stick to their opinion about women and combat service, think about this.. I’ve personally met two active duty women serving as special war fare EOD operators. For those who don’t know what that is, take a look. They go through a tough course not to different from the BUDs course three SEALS go through. They are airborne qualified, ground combat qualified and roll with the TEAMS guys to dispose of ordinance and ieds as well as support in combat operations. this is NOT some admin job or wimpy clean up crew. Naval EOD operators are under SOCOM meaning they are what people consider to be”special forces” in the navy. And though they are few, women DO serve in them and they are tough as nails. No special treatment was given to them.

The biggest reason women are not allowed into infantry based rates and MOSs is due to the fact that these fields are and were built for men. They cater to the needs of the men and having a woman there is not only a distraction, but a danger in combat. Not because women lack the ability to deal with combat, but that men who are supposed to be a fighting unit will more than likely be less cemented together as a unit and naturally wasn’t to protect the woman . .

While I agree that the majority of women raised into normative gender roles for women nowadays would not make it through such a program such as BUDs (as very few men make the cut anyhow), it is stupid and ignorant to say that there its no woman on the planet that icould make it. I say this all to say that while I am all for keeping The Teams the way they are, I do believe women have the ability to serve in such capacities. The question that lingers is “should they?”

Now just to give you some insight on where I am coming from so I don’t seem like I’m spewing off nonsense, I live in Seal town, Virginia beach. I have worked with senior chief Don Shipley (though not for directly) as an opfor many times and work in occupations that put me in close contact with SEALS, EOD. SWAT, and so on. I get my information from the time I’ve spent with them and my privileged time I’ve gotten to spend and sometimes train with them.

Warriorship knows no gender.

Kai on September 24, 2011 at 2:13 pm

And I can tell you now, women will not be entering The Teams anytime soon. Though I do believe there are women capable of the training, the SEAL teams won’t be allowing women in their ranks in the near future

Kai on September 24, 2011 at 2:19 pm

Give America 10 years and it will decide that women are capable of being Navy SEALS. A lot of women wouldn’t be able to pass the test, but some will. I’m not a feminist, I just know it is wrong to not let a woman at least attempt to become a Navy SEAL.

Jessica on November 29, 2011 at 1:02 pm

Anyone who can pass the tests should be allowed regardless of what is or is not hanging between their legs. The standards shouldn’t change, but you also shouldn’t say women can’t try. If someone isn’t good enough then you don’t have to worry about them “lowering the standards”. Stop being sexists. Why set the bar so low for women? You’d be surprised what they can do when you don’t tell them they can’t.

Me on May 26, 2012 at 11:50 pm

Excuse me but can I cut in! This nation is turning into a sad “MAN’S FREE WORLD!” If you don’t know what I mean let me explain. Men believe that women can’t met the standards of a Navy Seals! You have time to compare us to the men who can’t make it into the Navy Seals, then compare us to the men who can! I don’t understand how you think that not even one woman can make it into the Navy Seals. QUESTION????? HAVE YOU EVEN TRIED LETTING US! To you that would mean the thought of a women actually meeting the same standards as ya’ll and actually being able to succeed in doing the same thing as ya’ll scares you. I do understand that some women may not make it, but just as you said that all the men couldn’t even make it I trust that not all the women will make it! I do trust some will strive though! GIVE THE WOMEN A CHANCE TO SHOW OFF THEIR SKILLS because what you don’t realize is that we keep bringing into this world a new generation and they start to except women doing the same as them it’s just…. “CAN YOU GET THIS THROUGH YOUR HEAD THAT WE ARE STILL EQUALLY!” Just because we don’t have the same body parts does not mean that we cant do what you do. We still love you men ALOT! Its just that one day this is going to change. I might be the one to change it in time. I’m going out for Navy Seals and I will succeed no matter what anybody says. Let the females have a chance. We already have some controlling men, let’s not have a much controlling nation. Putting women into the Navy Seals will not jeopardize this nation it just might make it better. Try it! MAKE A TEST OF IT UNTIL 2016. SEE IF YOU CAN FING A WOMEN WHO MEETS THE STANDARDS BEFORE 2016 HITS AND IF WE DONT MEET THE STANDARDS THEN YOU CAN SAY WELL THEIR NOT AS WILLFUL AND DEDICATED AS THE MEN BUT IF YOU DO JUST GIVE US A CHANCE TO SERVE OUR NATION JUST LIKE THE MEN ARE DOING!

Alisia Riney on October 27, 2013 at 1:56 pm

This site is nothing but a sexiest piece of shit that wrote it! Men can only do the job? Pssshhhh….ive knocked out and got into brawls with guys before. Im may be small but im a strong girl who can make a point and prove myself. So dont sit there and say girls can not be a seal. I never wanted to join, but the past yr i really thought about it and i want to bad! I want to prove to guys that are cocky dick fucks that think they are a gods gift that i can out beat them. Not only i have my hero which is my uncle that is a seal. He probaly trained most of u that reads this. But he gives me hope and pride to atleast give my effort. So you cocky ass men that i respect for fighting for us but yet i wanna freak out on ya for girls being weak; quit being sexist cause karmas not to nice. Give the women a damn chance.i love my uncle to death and i look up to him and i am proud to say he is my uncle and damn right i talk about him every day. He is my pride a joy that makes me just think and think about being one.

nikki on June 11, 2014 at 10:21 am