Allowing women to join front line army units has failed...
Mar 7, 2024 20:05:58 GMT
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Post by Red Rackham on Mar 7, 2024 20:05:58 GMT
Letting women join front-line Army fighting units a ‘failed exercise in political correctness’
The decision to allow women to join front-line Army fighting units has been described as a “failed exercise in political correctness” after government figures revealed that only 10 female recruits started infantry and Royal Armoured Corps basic training last year.
Just 15 female recruits completed basic training for either infantry or tank units between January and September 2023, figures released in a freedom of information request obtained by The Telegraph also showed.
Fewer than five trained female soldiers transferred into either the armoured corps or the infantry from other army units, while no female recruits have passed Royal Marines training, according to the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
One former defence chief claimed on Saturday that opening up combat roles to female recruits was more about political correctness rather than any benefit to the Army. The disclosure emerged after Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said that women were the solution to the Armed Forces recruitment crisis.
In an interview with The Telegraph in January, Mr Shapps said: “Something which I’m extremely passionate about is actually having a military which should represent our country as it is today “It can’t be right that our military still only has 11 or 12 per cent women, for example, when they make up half the population.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/24/female-army-recruits-failed-exercise-political-correctness/
If an army never went to war, if it was just for show, then front line or teeth arm regiments full of women would be a raging success. Sadly, in spite of politically correct politicians and some very senior officers, it doesn't work like that.
In my opinion a Defence Secretary should be ex military, I say this because Grant Shapps is the perfect example of a clueless politically correct politician. Anyone who says women are the solution to the Armed Forces recruitment crisis is an idiot who is putting his lack of knowledge and experience on display.
The decision to allow women to join front-line Army fighting units has been described as a “failed exercise in political correctness” after government figures revealed that only 10 female recruits started infantry and Royal Armoured Corps basic training last year.
Just 15 female recruits completed basic training for either infantry or tank units between January and September 2023, figures released in a freedom of information request obtained by The Telegraph also showed.
Fewer than five trained female soldiers transferred into either the armoured corps or the infantry from other army units, while no female recruits have passed Royal Marines training, according to the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
One former defence chief claimed on Saturday that opening up combat roles to female recruits was more about political correctness rather than any benefit to the Army. The disclosure emerged after Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said that women were the solution to the Armed Forces recruitment crisis.
In an interview with The Telegraph in January, Mr Shapps said: “Something which I’m extremely passionate about is actually having a military which should represent our country as it is today “It can’t be right that our military still only has 11 or 12 per cent women, for example, when they make up half the population.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/24/female-army-recruits-failed-exercise-political-correctness/
If an army never went to war, if it was just for show, then front line or teeth arm regiments full of women would be a raging success. Sadly, in spite of politically correct politicians and some very senior officers, it doesn't work like that.
In my opinion a Defence Secretary should be ex military, I say this because Grant Shapps is the perfect example of a clueless politically correct politician. Anyone who says women are the solution to the Armed Forces recruitment crisis is an idiot who is putting his lack of knowledge and experience on display.
