With women’s rights organizations pushing for gender equality in the military, it has proven to be anything but equal. Integration has proved that women are not capable physically emotionally or mentally of the standards and rigors of a military culture. These factors all come into play when training our nations marines, airmen, soldiers, and sailors. By allowing women to enter the military we have seen weakened standards while simultaneously trying to transform them into disciplined warriors. As a result recruits fresh out of basic training are lacking skills and proficiency in a variety of areas. If this erosion of military standards is to continue it is possible it wi

Many members of the military would consider it intimate, both physically and emotionally. Unlike the eight and nine hour days in an executive office, the military is constant. During wartime it can be a twenty-four hour a day, seven-day-a-week job under very strenuous conditions. Often times a platoon will have to strip down in a field to change, or sometimes bath themselves in a river. This is not something that can be done in a gender-integrated unit.

The idea of “warrior” has also had a masculine appeal to most men, verses the traditional female-centered ideas of raising a child. The mythological warrior to be, is the one who can stand most removed from the power of his mother, the military training through which he undergoes is portrayed as a from of social reproduction in which he is transformed from a mere child to a man. This new man, this new body completely changed and isolated from the rest of society indicates a reaction against feminists’ movements. The integration of women into the services though, has seemed to transform the term warrior and even scare some of those elite men away. Many of them resent the double standards that allow the women to possess the same title as her male counterpart. Others leave in fear of sexual allegations. As a United States Marine, I do not have an issue with women in the military. For the benefit of everyone though, I feel that women should be restricted from direct combat positions, which could involve direct involvement with the enemy. I feel that women should only be allowed to such positions, only after they meet the same, exact standards the men have to. This should be looked at the same way someone is refused a job, most likely it is because they have not met the standards to perform the task at hand to his or her potential. If good order and discipline, unit morale, and unit cohesion are to exist, they will only happen when commanders exercise strong leadership and root out all discrimination. This also requires that each individual assume responsibility for his or her actions, and that the military establishment have one set of standards that is fair and equitably enforced.

Like the civilian legal system, the military also has a legal justice system known as the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which helps to create, enforce, and rule the distinctive cultures of each branch of the military. The UCMJ as it is known operates a little differently from the civilian system. With the availability to possess and operate weapons of mass destruction, or weaponry possible of overthrowing governments and doing severe damage to civilian structure, means they must be regulated in a manner different from that of civilians. Some rights that civilians have like the right to indictment by a grand jury do not apply to the military. On the other hand, Congress has established some acts to be criminal offenses when done by a member of the military, but in the civilian world these offenses would not be considered criminal at all. For example, it is a crime in the military to lie on a job

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