Quote from: Solar on January 09, 2014, 07:42:16 AM
Yep, that was our complaint as well, especially in the terrain we fought fires, it was bad enough as an healthy individual to traverse, let alone someone trying to carry you out.

Yeah, they can cut all the weight they want from the equipment, but you can't regulate the disparity in the weight difference, and strength between men and women.

Or...are libs willing to force fire depts. to hire only small men so as to make it fair to the women? I jest, but libs have proven what used to be considered ludicrous, to now be the norm.

Don't cha know; judges have decided that you don't need the strength to carry some one out of a fire, you can just drag them! 

Quote from: Bowhntr on January 09, 2014, 07:32:42 AM
I've dealt with that when I work as a contractor for the USFS.  However, in my full time job they just keep lowering the standards.  Problem is if crap hits the fan I may need a female to carry me out.  Now how are they going to do that if they have reduced minimum standards to "walk and chew gum at the same time"?

After threat of lawsuits from toothless fat hillbilly women recruited at the Walmart food bar, requirements for chewing gum were dropped, to allow recruitment of Gummy Babes into the front-line defense forces.

Teaching them to shoot or how to accomplish a single pull-up will come after further input from the same liberal women who themselves would never join a military, even to defend their own families.

Quote from: mdgiles on January 09, 2014, 08:33:00 AM
Don't cha know; judges have decided that you don't need the strength to carry some one out of a fire, you can just drag them! 

When seconds matter, help is only minutes away with a walkie talkie......

Quote from: Solar on January 08, 2014, 04:47:15 PM
Not sure if you were affected with this nonsense, but when I worked for USFS in the early 90s, affirmative action dictated we hire women to fight fires with men, and since they couldn't handle the heavy equipment, they couldn't be hired.
So what did the Govt do? Cut the weight of all materials. Hoses that used to last for years, were made of some really thin crap and weighed a fourth of they used to.
Now those new hoses last maybe two seasons.

Government interference messes up our lives in more ways than I can count.

Just got a new washing machine a few weeks ago.  I realized to my horror that it shreds clothes unless it is specifically left on one specific setting.  That is what the repairman told me.  The government forced private companies to manufacture washing machines that contain specific energy saver devices.  This caused the shredding problem and makes machines have a much lower life span.  That is sheer insantity.

But doing this to our armed forces is an all out death sentence because lives will be lost.  Women are not as strong as men.  These idiot Libs cannot deal with the notion.  That is how G-d made it.  Period.  End of story.