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Women to be allowed into combat roles!
According to staff at the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, is putting into action a removal of the ban on women serving in combat roles. At this time, infantry, special forces, and other frontline jobs in the military are men-only.
From Military Times:
Some jobs may open as soon as this year. Assessments for others, such as special operations forces, including Navy SEALS and the Army’s Delta Force, may take longer.
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Panetta’s move expands the Pentagon’s action nearly a year ago to open about 14,500 combat positions to women, nearly all of them in the Army. This decision could open more than 230,000 jobs, many in Army and Marine infantry units, to women.
What do you think about women serving "in the trenches?"
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Women in combat
As former 11B40 in Vietnam, I can’t see the purpose and find this initiative ridiculous. How is this going to accomplish anything positive? War is not an HBO drama series and you can’t legislate everything be fair and equal in the chaos of war. What is so wrong with differences anyway? We sometimes went up to 10 days without a change of fatigues or showers, we carried 80 lbs. of weapons and equipment and some days walked all day in 90 degree heat and humidity. Occasionally we had to carry buddies out of harm’s way. Can they legislate these facts away for the sake of political correctness? There are also natural interaction issues with young people with hormones that have to be considered because an unnecessary disruption in combat can be lethal. It doesn’t take a genius to see the very real problems that exist. Right or wrong in our culture men are still brought up to protect women. I know there have been Defense Department studies and debates for a long time but this whole concept is downright silly, unnecessary and most of all extremely dangerous. More importantly there are enough vital combat positions available that don’t have the unique requirements of infantry. Our enemies aren’t going to have equal opportunity and diversity bureaucracies to contend with so why handcuff our infantry with them in combat?
Women In Combat..
I am shipping out to BCT this summer and I must say that it has been my dream to be a woman in SF. I believe that if you can pass at the same criteria that is met by the men then you should have a fair shot. While there are some other issues that might need to be dealt with or evaluated, I think that the opportunity should be there!!!
IF a women could meet the
IF a women could meet the SAME physical requirements as a man I'd still disagree with this decision. There are just to many issues that could occur in combat. I agree with 5Cav68 on this issue, it creates more problems than the social engineering is worth.