Michael Glenn Mullen Quotes

Women have always been in combat. We had women who won the Silver Star in World War II.

Have you ever seen a man darning socks? So therefore a woman cannot be a combat pilot.

The instinct of humanity revolts against the employment of woman as a soldier on the battlefield. No civilized man would wish to lay this duty upon her; no civilized woman would wish to assume it.

I feel extremely fortunate that I can be a fighter pilot and not a female fighter pilot.

The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

I had medevacked so many women off the battlefield that I knew that it was a misnomer to say that women weren't in combat. I had friends that were Marines that were taken to fight the enemy. They weren't just firing in defense of their position.

The combat exclusion policy was adopted during the Clinton Administration in 1994 and says women can 'be assigned to all positions for which they are qualified, except that women shall be excluded from assignment to units below the brigade level whose primary mission is to engage in direct combat on the ground.'

I think women are too valuable to be in combat.

Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.

It is good to see women doctors and lawyers and executives. I can visualize a woman president. If I were British, I would have supported Margaret Thatcher. But no benefit to anyone can come from women serving in combat.

I have never met a woman … whom I would trust with combat leadership…. The Naval Academy is a horny woman’s dream.

I don’t have any respect to men who send women out to do their fighting for them.

It is time for the U. S. military to get over its hang-ups and acknowledge women’s rightful place on the battlefield…. There are physically fit, tough women who are suitable for combat, and weak and feeble men who are not.

Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valiantly. Yet there is a key difference between being in harm's way and reacting to enemy contact, and being in a direct combat operations role day in and day out. They are different scenarios that require different standards.

We've been at war for 10 years with this generation of Marines. We've seen women do a whole lot of things between the war in Iraq and the current war in Afghanistan. The fact that I'm sitting here making sure that we continue to put out the best young Marines is just a matter of it being 2011.

I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do.

Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.

We're not going to spread democracy at the business end of a M16 held by a 23 year old Marine.

I don’t see why a gay person can serve openly in the White House and not be able to serve openly in the military.

They serve so that we don't have to. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free. It is, remarkably, their gift to us. And all they ask for in return is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. Will they ever trust us again?