Comments by "Thump Er the Sweaty Fat Guy" (@SweatyFatGuy) on "Women To Be DRAFTED For War? Compulsory Military Service For Women Announced" video.

  1.  @Whatsup_Abroad  you're assuming they would not be willing participants... that tells me you don't know how they are in the military. It appears to me after many years active duty that they enlist just to get holes filled over and over by different members every week/day.
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  2. Sniper? Recon? Logistics? No.. they cannot do that, they do not pack the gear required to complete the job. To do the same as one average guy takes 5 or more of them. They can't run very far, they can't carry anything while doing it, they have no endurance, no speed, and they can't manage their emotions. My USAF job was logistics, air cargo where I loaded aircraft and pushed pallets that can weigh 10,000lbs each. Over 6000lbs you cannot get enough of them behind it to move it, and I can move then by myself, because I was saddled with them in the 1990-91 airlift... and I got HUGE from being overworked. I could pick up 200lbs and run up three stories hundreds of times during a 12 hour shift. They have a difficult time with 40lbs, its simple biology.
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  3.  @randysavage1  they aren't very effective in logistics, e.g. moving the cargo needed for a military to function. My USAF job was logistics, and they did NONE of the heavy lifting, caused the most vehicle mishaps, and became petty capricious tyrants when they made rank. They are useful in services, running the gym and chow hall, finance and other paper pushing jobs, and in medical its a mixed bag of how well they can do the job. Mostly they are a whistle sack that gets reamed out by the tallest and best looking guys on base. I was the safety and vehicle NCO for my unit, as an extra duty my primary job was cargo/logistics. I know how many accidents and bad ideas were perpetrated by everyone. In all my years on active duty, I found ONE that was able to operate equipment without running into things. Several of them put holes in aircraft, drove forklifts off docks, ran over cargo, and one was most thrilled about driving fork tines through 55 gallon drums of oil, hydraulic fluid, or whatever else was in it.. then when they make a huge mistake like that, they are protected when one of us who does it twice gets 'corrective measured' heaped upon them and discharged if they mess up three times. Air cargo guys go into hot spots, do the job under fire, and nobody realizes its USAF guys doing it. Look at the videos of Khe Sanh and you will USAF cargo troops going out to pick up the airdropped cargo and loading/unloading planes with mortars falling around them. On my deployments we did all the heavy lifting out in the heat, they stayed in the passenger terminal with the AC and rarely came outside when a plane was being loaded with passengers. They did NONE of the baggage, because they simply cannot lift a 90lb bag, let alone 900 of them in a row.
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  4.  @missourimongoose8858  they aren't built to carry a 90lb ruck with all the stuff they need to survive in it, let alone haul it dozens of miles without stopping. If they are made to work like we do their bodies wear out in weeks rather than decades. My job was in logistics, USAF air cargo. They did none of the heavy lifting jobs, and most of what they did was screwed up.
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  5.  @budbas  based on rank, time in service, and time in grade, everyone in the military gets paid on the same scale. So that guy climbing a mountain with someone dropping grenades down at him gets paid the same as she does sitting in an office filling out forms... and he will get an ok performance report and she will get a stellar one, regardless of her job performance. As an NCO I was forced to give them top marks on performance reports, but the males I had to justify all of it unless they were one of the 'favorite special ones' who did next to nothing in reality, but was lauded for the most minor and mundane things. Enlisted performance reports (EPRs) are a scale of 1 to 5. 1 and 2 is discharge them at the earliest, 3 is what you give to someone who is barely able to function. 4 is what you get when you aren't doing a bunch of things for the local community, going to school for higher ed, or have your nose so deep in your boss you can see what he just had for breakfast, but you are VERY good at your job. 5 is what you get when you're that last guy, female by default, or you are absolutely outstanding and have not intimidated the guy writing the EPR. Your EPR plays a pat in the points you need to get promoted, so do awards/medals/decorations. I was screwed out of many medals for doing things nobody else could do, because I am freakishly muscular. The 90-91 airlift packed 50lbs of muscle on me in around 6 months. I got an achievement medal for working 5000 airplanes in the first six weeks of Desert Shield. My Colonel during Shield/Storm said E3s do not get commendations, which is what my performance warranted, so I got an award worth 1 point rather than 2. There was a gasp from my gaining unit when my award was read to the squadron in 1992, usually you get an achievement for participating in something, what I did was superhuman, it normally would take a crew of 5 to do what I did single handed. They don't want someone who can bench press 500lbs, they want someone skinny who brown noses, and looks good in uniform... or bleeds a week every month and does very little actual work. Females came back from deployments where they sat in AC doing safe non difficult paperwork/office jobs, and got awards for showing up. That means they were promoted faster.
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  6.  @JP-qb3ny  if he US military ends up in something like they have in Ukraine, then some politico somewhere humped the bunk. For years the biggest export of Ukraine other than grain was hotties, now there are a million less men, which means more hotties available for export. As for support roles, like logistics, they can't do those effectively enough either.
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  7.  @Ronreco_SR  While I was in Kuwait in 2004 we unloaded so many HR's that I had to drive the 10K AT to unload their personal effects, I couldn't carry them anymore. Bothered me too much, also I was getting to the point where I couldn't walk very far, degenerative joint disease they call it. Crushed cartilage I call it. My spine is good, everything attached to it is trashed. Still bothers me how many we had to unload and load in a day. Funny how it was always only men doing it, honoring the fallen. Week males have to act like 'non males' because they are incapable of inflicting grievous harm or defending themselves physically. So they go for the capricious and cheap stuff, intending to harm your character. Look at all the tyrants in history, not one of them was a highly capable man, they were all slight and week so they used subterfuge and enlisted others to do the dirty work for them.
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  8.  @user-yu8nq9yx6k  billions of Won or billions of dollars, because there is 1000 times difference in value. e.g. 1000 won = $1. Most beer while I was in your lovely country was 2000 won. Despite the circumstances I was dealing with, I found Korea to be full of great people and beautiful places... but that was 20 years ago.
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  9.  @MKANDRESTINPEACE  not ignoring that they are all like that, but the ones that enlist are 'special' and they think they are far more valuable than they actually are. Get to know them and you'll see what I mean.
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  10.  @jchan7910  if its one of those $$$$$$ deployments, like Kuwait City where you get $86 per diem, tax free, hostile fire pay, etc. They go on those deployments, but its safe and they don't do any actual work. That was my last deployment in 2004, we were heavy with them so I ended up loading cargo planes single handed.. only me, pushing hundreds of pallets per night. A pallet can weigh 10,000lbs as a single one and we can string six of them together. I came back broken, but I had a decent bit of cash which was nice considering a year before I was living in my car because of divorce.
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  11.  @NiccaGeorge  you give them far too much credit. Thinking ahead, of cause and effect? That is exceptionally rare among them.
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