Priorities are a strange thing.

When there is an active agenda to make the US military smaller, there is an active agenda to push women into combat roles and into selective service aka the draft/conscription.

You would think that such a vital institution with such a vital cause would be the last place to have social experiments or to pathetically use the line "equal opportunity," and if major changes were to be made it would come slowly with much debate, discussion and small vetted experiments to assure honest conclusions.

These changes have come to the marriage & family as well.

Yet there is no active change for "equality," to combine differences, in say professional sports like the NFL, NHL or the NBA. There are no serious discussions in the near future to combine Best Actor and Best Actress as one category - Best Performance in a Film - for the Oscars and other industry awards. None. There is no serious push to combine women's MMA division with men. These institutions and mediums of entertainment are untouched and yet they are the least important to what makes society function. Shouldn't they be the ones to be subject of unfettered social experimentation? They aren't. Why is that?

Changes have occurred in occupations that deal with life and death. Firemen. Police force. The military. The have come to institutions that deal with child rearing. Any backlash is deemed sexist or in the name of bigotry. Proponents hide under the ever feel-good, so-called enlightened concept of equal opportunity.

Something is up and all of it is being done in the name of "progress."

Why change one of the most lethal institution? Why subject women, as late General Robert H. Barrow once said, to death?

This past January, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus ordered that the Marine Corps to do away with separate training grounds for women and men Marines, both in boot camp and Officer Training School, in order make them co-ed. But sleeping and shower quarters are to remain single sex. Hmmm.

Mabus served two years in the Navy in the 1970s. He is also a graduate of Harvard Law.

US Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, is a Yale graduate and received his doctorate from Oxford University in the sciences. He has never served in the military.

Between these two, there is a total of 128 years being on this planet (Mabus, 67; Carter 61). There is only two years total of military experience between each. Both have been appointed by Obama. Both are Democrats.