{"id":1584,"date":"2007-12-07T06:02:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T06:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-12-07T06:04:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T06:04:06","slug":"copchicks_and_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1584","title":{"rendered":"Copchicks and Raven 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Cooper used to talk with veiled disdain about &#8216;copchicks&#8217;. And <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/posts\/chain_1196970648.shtml\" target=\"browser\">over at Volokh<\/a>, Wayne State law prof Kingsley Browne riffs off his new book &#8216;Co-Ed Combat&#8217; &#8211; following on his old book &#8216;Biology at Work: Rethinking Sexual Equality&#8217; to talk at length about why it is bad to have women in the military.I actually agree that there are certainly physical and probably cognitive differences between men and women; but you know what, when the chips are down, I&#8217;ll happily stand next to (in back of, crouching, actually) any of several tough-ass women I know (hi, TK!!).<\/p>\n<p>And in case you&#8217;ve forgotten this story, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/006564.php\" target=\"browser\">read the whole thing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>What follows next is a classically executed counterattack. The two senior NCOs, one a woman, take the fight directly to the insurgents in their trenches:<\/p>\n<p><b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Squad leader dismounted with his M4 carbine, and 2 hand grenades, grabbed the section leader out of the first vehicle who had rendered radio reports of their first contact. The two of them, squad leader Staff Sergeant and team leader Sergeant with <u>her<\/u> M4 and M203 grenade launcher, rush the nearest ditch about 20 meters away to start clearing the natural trenchline. The enemy has gone into the ditches and is hiding behind several small trees in the back of the lot. The .50 cal and SAW (squad automatic weapon &#8211; corrected) flanking fire tears apart the ten enemy in the lead trenchline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/b><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll mount a more serious response in a bit, but for now&#8230;over to you, Prof. Browne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women in the military?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}