Alabama Marine unloads on ‘scourge of feminism’ putting women in combat roles

(Video above: “Jim from Marshall County” discusses women in combat with talk show host Michael Hart)

In a phone call to Birmingham-based talk radio station 101.1 WYDE on Tuesday, an Alabama Marine Sergeant passionately defended his belief that women should not be permitted to take on combat roles in the U.S. armed forces.

The role of women in combat his been a hot-button issue in recent years, with President Barack Obama being a vocal advocate in favor of all combat positions being open to women, while military leaders have been split on the issue.

“Jim from Marshall County,” a retired Marine who said he served as a platoon sergeant for 12 years, told WYDE host Michael Hart that his personal experience serving in Afghanistan led to his opinion that women should not be put on the field of battle.

“I was blown out of a helicopter in Afghanistan, okay? I was one of the three men in the platoon that survived, the rest were killed as a result of an RPG striking our helicopter. The only reason that I survived is because a United States Navy Corpsman dragged me away from the wreckage because I was knocked stupid, okay? And I’m gonna tell you something: at that time I was about 235 and a solid muscle ball. And you know what? That corpsman was about 238 and thank God he had about 3 pounds more of muscle to drag my butt out of there.”

Jim insisted he “might be dead” if it had been a female corpsman, rather than a male, trying to pull him out of the wreckage.

He also cited the physicality combat positions require, and the danger of lowering standards to allow women in those positions.

“I went through Ranger School, because as you know I was in the United States Marine Corps Third Reconnaissance battalion — a recon marine — which means we had to go through Ranger School, which means for a good part of that training, every day that pack had to have 60-plus pounds in it. You want to talk about a workout? Just think of 38 days of going to the gym, Mike, and doing heavy on your quads, okay? That’s what that’s like, in addition to your back.

There is no way, no way – and I don’t care if you bring her off of…I forget what that show is… “American Gladiator,” pump her up full of testosterone, and put her in the gym — she can’t make it through Ranger School legitimately. The two that just went through, the standards were lowered by 30 percent, Mike. 30 percent! So that those two females could make it through Ranger School, okay?”

Last summer, 1st Lt. Shaye Haver, who once lived near Enterprise, Alabama, made history by becoming one of the first two females to pass the Army Ranger’s rigorous training, and earning the special operations group’s famous black and yellow Ranger tab.

Haver’s class began the program with 380 men and 19 women. Only 94 men and 2 women graduated.

“I don’t like women in the Army or the Marine Corps at all,” Jim reiterated, before commending the Marine Corps Commandant for standing up to President Obama and advocating that some military roles be limited to men.

“He was the only one that had the onions to say that. The other three just nod their heads, “Yes, Mr. Obama,” like idiots. We’re not talking about fooling around here. We’re talking about men’s lives in combat.”

Jim ended his call by expressing concerns about what radical Islamists would do to female soldiers if they were captured, and also derided the “scourge of feminism” and the “degradation” of society for bringing America to this point.

“Well I might be dead, Mike,” he said, speculating about what may have happened to him if he had been placed on the battlefield alongside women. “And that’s where the rubber meets the road.”