Before this disclaimer was issued by the Ministry of Defence, some news media reported that the Military was going to end admission of female cadets into the combat course of the Defence Academy.
Re: #Military Stops Admission of Female Cadets @CDS_Nig @JohnEnencheDDI @Afrs1077Fm pic.twitter.com/CuHmRoQLEA
— DEFENCE HQ NIGERIA (@DefenceInfoNG) November 14, 2017
This had foremost Twitter Military analyst, @beegeaglesblog, considering the effectiveness of women in combat vis a vis that of men. He hinged his conclusion that female soldiers do not do as well as their male counterparts in combat on this quartz article below:
The COLD REALITY: The US Marines Tested ALL-MALE Squads Against MIXED-GENDER Ones, And The Results Were Pretty BLEAKhttps://t.co/RaHpR9RV6N
— BEEGEAGLES BLOG (@beegeaglesblog) November 14, 2017
"The Corps’ summary of the experiment (simulated combat, that is), posted online today by NPR, concludes that combat teams were less effective when they included women."
— BEEGEAGLES BLOG (@beegeaglesblog) November 14, 2017
That's the cold truth that many flee from for fear of either getting blackspotted as male chauvinists, anti-women or not trendy. Read on…
— BEEGEAGLES BLOG (@beegeaglesblog) November 14, 2017
Marine Corps Study: All-Male Combat Units Performed Better Than Mixed Unitshttps://t.co/ZNnhRlrdk5
— BEEGEAGLES BLOG (@beegeaglesblog) November 14, 2017
Why people love to add and delete immutable reality just to look good or sound modern beats me. Why are Blessing Okagbare & Usain Bolt not competing against each other? We pretend not to know why?Oh pls..the fronting we get up to is nauseating
— BEEGEAGLES BLOG (@beegeaglesblog) November 14, 2017
"A yearlong Marine Corps study trying to understand how gender integration would affect combat readiness has found that all-male units were faster, more lethal and able to evacuate casualties in less time."
— BEEGEAGLES BLOG (@beegeaglesblog) November 14, 2017
"Overall, according to a summary of the study, all-male squads performed better than mixed groups in 69 percent of the tasks evaluated."
— BEEGEAGLES BLOG (@beegeaglesblog) November 14, 2017
Why then do we peddle myths & wallow in invented reality just to look good b4 this, that or the other? An inauthentic existence?
— BEEGEAGLES BLOG (@beegeaglesblog) November 14, 2017
Reactions:
A combat team in deployment facing a real-life combat situation isnt a PS4 game,people die from the slightest distractions or mistakes.the military wont endanger lives of its servicemen and women just to look politically correct.
— Dutchwooddesigns?? (@bidemisadiq) November 14, 2017
Counter
"The tests come with at least one important caveat: As the Marine Corps Times notes, many of of the male study participants had previously served in combat units, whereas female participants, by necessity, came directly from infantry schools or from noncombat jobs".
— Ene (@MademoiselleEne) November 14, 2017
You didn’t include the caveat about the female combatants not having previous real battle experience. So your conclusion is flawed
— Akinbobola Akinola ?? (@bobolaakinola) November 14, 2017
Did they test an all male team against an all female team or it's just male tam against mixed teams
— Vegetarian Cannibal (@Tonaba123) November 14, 2017
I have read through your thread and I need to counter it. That narrative you just painted about female comabatants is false. >>> thread. https://t.co/xseSg4dxC2
— Bill Gates’ Maiguard (@knightofdelta) November 14, 2017
The sampling bias in that study is profound. Almost as if the researchers wanted a certain type of outcome.
— Galahad (@quipsy) November 14, 2017
Sure looks that way.
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