Female U.S. soldiers (Photo: U.S. Army)
The Pentagon’s top brass said Tuesday that if all military jobs must be open to women, then lawmakers should make it mandatory for them to register for future drafts.
Gen. Mark A. Milley, chief of staff of the Army, and Gen. Robert B. Neller, the Marine Corps commandant, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that registering all women for Selective Service is an appropriate request given the push to make military occupational specialties gender-neutral.
“Now that the restrictions that exempted women from [combat jobs] don’t exist, then you’re a citizen of a United States,” Gen. Neller told Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., the Washington Post reported. “It doesn’t mean you’re going to serve, but you [need to] register.”
“Senator, I think that all eligible and qualified men and women should register for the draft,” added Milley.
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The comments were the first time senior military officials definitively weighed in on this issue since U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter opened all jobs to women in December. That decision frustrated the United State Marine Corps, which argued that women in combat roles face higher odds of injury.
“The administration said it doesn’t matter what the Marines have said. It doesn’t matter what the research says. This is President Obama’s order. That’s why it’s being done, because this president knows he can order the military to do whatever he wants,” said Center for Military Readiness President Elaine Donnelly, who wrote a blistering critique of the policy change, WND reported Dec. 6, 2015.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the Armed Services Committee chairman, raised the Marine Corps’ concerns Tuesday during an exchange with Navy Secretary Ray Mabus. The official previously brushed off empirical data provided by the Marine Corps’ Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force, or GCEITF.
“So you, with a straight face, make claims that the Marines’ study was flawed and biased, even if you did not even go see the study being performed?” McCain asked Mabus, the newspaper reported.
“Averages don’t tell the abilities and performance of an individual Marine,” Mabus replied. “There were and are capable women who can meet the arduous standards the Marine Corps set for ground combat arms units and we all now that Marines have never been about average.”
The Selective Service System requires all American men between the ages of 18 and 26 register. The majority of men must sign up within 30 days of turning 18.
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