CPO Shannon Kent
I just thought she was an outstanding fallen fighter who deserved some respect.
I was actually going to post her story here - and was glad to see someone had already.
What do you mean by `identity politics game'?
I was actually going to post her story here - and was glad to see someone had already.
What do you mean by `identity politics game'?
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I would have thought that the fact that a woman worked up close with Special Forces was, simply, newsworthy. It also seems that some characteristics that are conventionally regarded as feminine were an asset (interviewing skills). After the remark about "identity politics" I thought I would find out that the deceased was a trans woman, but she was cis, hetero, and a mother. I see no sign of identity politics there. Just a recognition of a remarkable, and unexpected, kind of soldiering.
But how can it be newsworthy when women have been given official recognition for attached-arms roles since the Crimean War? The media should move past it.
The whole `don't call out women' trope is as tired as the `don't speculate on the cause of the accident' bollocks.
She was a very notable soldier.
All branches of the military everywhere are still predominantly male.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_...ary_by_country
Take Australia for example.
All roles in the Australian Defence Force are open to women. The first women became involved with the Australian armed forces with the creation of the Army Nursing Service in 1899. On the 30th of June 2017, women were found to make up 16.5% of the Australian Defence Force (with 20.6% in the Royal Australian Air Force, 20.4% in the Royal Australian Navy and 13.2% in the Australian Army).[10] However, up until 2016, only 74% of the total number of available roles in the Australian armed forces were available to women. Despite this, using 1998-99 figures, the ADF had the highest percentage of women in its employ in the world.[11] In 1998, Australia became the fourth nation in the world to allow women to serve on its submarines.
Australia was the fourth country to permit female crew on submarines, doing so in June 1998 on board Collins class submarines. Australia's first deployment of female sailors in a combat zone was aboard HMAS Westralia in the Persian Gulf during the 1991 Gulf War.
On 27 September 2011, Defence Minister Stephen Smith announced that women will be allowed to serve in frontline combat roles by 2016.[12]
So, in my view, women are still vastly in the minority, and deserve to be recognised and called out
Especially really outstanding ones like CPO Kent..
Oh for goodness sake - do some research and use some critical thinking.
The whole `don't call out women' trope is as tired as the `don't speculate on the cause of the accident' bollocks.
She was a very notable soldier.
All branches of the military everywhere are still predominantly male.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_...ary_by_country
Take Australia for example.
All roles in the Australian Defence Force are open to women. The first women became involved with the Australian armed forces with the creation of the Army Nursing Service in 1899. On the 30th of June 2017, women were found to make up 16.5% of the Australian Defence Force (with 20.6% in the Royal Australian Air Force, 20.4% in the Royal Australian Navy and 13.2% in the Australian Army).[10] However, up until 2016, only 74% of the total number of available roles in the Australian armed forces were available to women. Despite this, using 1998-99 figures, the ADF had the highest percentage of women in its employ in the world.[11] In 1998, Australia became the fourth nation in the world to allow women to serve on its submarines.
Australia was the fourth country to permit female crew on submarines, doing so in June 1998 on board Collins class submarines. Australia's first deployment of female sailors in a combat zone was aboard HMAS Westralia in the Persian Gulf during the 1991 Gulf War.
On 27 September 2011, Defence Minister Stephen Smith announced that women will be allowed to serve in frontline combat roles by 2016.[12]
So, in my view, women are still vastly in the minority, and deserve to be recognised and called out
Especially really outstanding ones like CPO Kent..
The whole `don't call out women' trope is as tired as the `don't speculate on the cause of the accident' bollocks.
She was a very notable soldier.
All branches of the military everywhere are still predominantly male.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_...ary_by_country
Take Australia for example.
All roles in the Australian Defence Force are open to women. The first women became involved with the Australian armed forces with the creation of the Army Nursing Service in 1899. On the 30th of June 2017, women were found to make up 16.5% of the Australian Defence Force (with 20.6% in the Royal Australian Air Force, 20.4% in the Royal Australian Navy and 13.2% in the Australian Army).[10] However, up until 2016, only 74% of the total number of available roles in the Australian armed forces were available to women. Despite this, using 1998-99 figures, the ADF had the highest percentage of women in its employ in the world.[11] In 1998, Australia became the fourth nation in the world to allow women to serve on its submarines.
Australia was the fourth country to permit female crew on submarines, doing so in June 1998 on board Collins class submarines. Australia's first deployment of female sailors in a combat zone was aboard HMAS Westralia in the Persian Gulf during the 1991 Gulf War.
On 27 September 2011, Defence Minister Stephen Smith announced that women will be allowed to serve in frontline combat roles by 2016.[12]
So, in my view, women are still vastly in the minority, and deserve to be recognised and called out
Especially really outstanding ones like CPO Kent..
SOLDIER FEB 2019
How's that for critical thinking?
