I saw two stories today about the military and both of them were associated in one way or another with women and DEI.
The first one has to do with Defense Secretary Hegseth’s orders to force women to pass the same physical fitness tests as men for combat and other physically challenging roles.
You would think this should already be in place since women claim not to be inferior to men in any way. But reality rears its ugly head and now this will essentially eliminate 99.9% of female candidates from the special forces organizations and a very large chunk of women from even basic combat roles.
This is one of the first things I see happening in the Trump administration that I can point to as a clear improvement on the status quo. Ever since Obama the military has been woke and women in command positions has been a big part of the problem. Hopefully now a lot of combat officer positions will be restricted to men and that should have a very positive effect on our combat capability. Now if there are women who are physically capable of pulling their own weight in combat circumstances, I don’t necessarily think they should be in combat roles. There are other problems with mixing women and men in close physical quarters. But at the very least eliminating women who aren’t strong enough to fight from the equation is a big plus.
The second story is a NY Times article about the investigation of the crash of the Black Hawk helicopter and the civilian airliner near Ronald Reagan airport.
The first item is that the pilot was a woman who was performing a periodic training flight to maintain her flight status. The article says she had 500 hours of flying experience at that time. But the most disturbing aspect of the article was the statement that the control tower had warned her of the collision danger and her trainer told her to change course to the left to avoid the collision and she did not. She had fifteen seconds to change course and she did not. In addition, the female pilot had some linkage to the Biden White House. I didn’t see any details about what her role was. But that immediately raised a red flag in my mind.
So, it’s very easy for me to immediately take these details and say that this disaster was caused by DEI. Is that fair? I don’t know, but as a first approximation I think it’s a reasonable starting hypothesis. If even the NY Times is throwing this woman under the bus, then who am I not to cast the second stone? And this goes hand in hand with a number of stories I’ve read of women in the military whose aircraft and naval vessel piloting have been less than adequate. When I think of Camera Girl behind the wheel of her car and all the times I’ve told her to go left and she’s gone right (or other-left as she calls it) I get the sense that DEI can be a recipe for disaster.
Well, anyway, Pete Hegseth, keep going the way you are. Put women back in the kitchen and the nursery and everyone will be that much safer and happier.
Update:
Here’s another more detailed article about the female helicopter pilot.