Am I the only one search never turns up anything for? Delete please.

I am a combat veteran and there were never any woman in our unit. I would have no problem serving in a combat unit with women as long as they do the same thing we did and fulfill their duty to the unit. If a woman wants to fight and have no qualms about killing regardless who, what gender, or what age the enemy is then I am ok with it. As long as they understand that if they are captured the torture would be different with them than with men. They would have to be able to endure sexual assault at the hands of most captors. As long as they understand the consequences of combat and what can happen and still want to be in combat then more power to them. Being captured and tortured is always a chance when in combat zones in other countries and as long as they understand this and still want to fight I say "let them". They should watch the movie "GI JANE" and that is nothing compared to what can really happen.

This happened in ISRAEL. Now USA. Welcome to the club.

The US should have done this sooner. The Taliban would have been doubly demoralised to have been owned by a bunch of cheerleaders with machine guns.

On a serious note, this is a correct decision.

Regards

Good move. Now make them register for Selective Service like males 18-26 are supposed to do.

Howeveri don't see women rushing into the combat arms jobs.

I have mixed feelings about this. They're getting what they want with regards to equality and such, but logistically speaking I just can't see it working. As mentioned before, their weight-to-gear ratio will be horrid and many women may struggle with it. I'm a trained soldier, fairly fit and averaged size but if you were to put an infanteers patrolling kit on me I'd probably feel the strain. It is bloody heavy. Now speaking from personal experience also, many female soldiers I've personally worked with have the "I'm a girl, I can't do it, can you do it for me?" attitude which I absolutely despise, and that will simply not work within an infantry unit, it just won't wash. Will be interesting to see how it pans out.

She won't pass initiation

Originally posted by bo12au
She won't pass initiation

Oh, but they will.

Personally, I do not have a problem with women in the military or on the front line. My personal beliefs are that women can be just as capable as men.

but... here is something that I am mixed on.

Imagine that a female soldier that has valuable information is captured. At first her training works out great and she never says a word about the information she knows, no matter what they do to her.

But what if she were to be raped, then got pregnant, then have a baby, and they used the baby as leverage against her.


I really don't want to play the devils advocate here, and in no way am I saying that women are not capable of fighting on the front lines. I am just trying to let people see things from a different point of view.

What would the answer be to a situation like this, sterilization (at least for a certain amount of time)? Training the parental instinct out of her? I don't have an answer for this one.

Originally posted by tw0330
Personally, I do not have a problem with women in the military or on the front line. My personal beliefs are that women can be just as capable as men.

but... here is something that I am mixed on.

Imagine that a female soldier that has valuable information is captured. At first her training works out great and she never says a word about the information she knows, no matter what they do to her.

But what if she were to be raped, then got pregnant, then have a baby, and they used the baby as leverage against her.


I really don't want to play the devils advocate here, and in no way am I saying that women are not capable of fighting on the front lines. I am just trying to let people see things from a different point of view.

What would the answer be to a situation like this, sterilization (at least for a certain amount of time)? Training the parental instinct out of her? I don't have an answer for this one.

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She will break. Man or Woman The human body is capable of Amazing feats, but when torture is applied its a whole another ballgame. ..As a Man I have no authority to tell a women what she can or can not do with her body. What happens when CNN starts showing dead females in bodybags? It is a complete breakdown of family values I am witnessing.

I'm in the military, been in for 17 years. It is about time women get into more combat roles. Some women can't be in combat as with some men because the lack the physicality or mentality to do it. If they can do it then I say go for it. As withe the rape thing, if women can can accept this being part of the package, so be it. Some women can, some can't

Originally posted by Spookycolt
It would be an absolutely huge deal, propaganda wise, for any terrorist organization to do this. I would expect to see them targeting female soldiers for abduction once they are finally out there in the field in greater numbers.

It will be really bad propaganda for the terrorists. Usually they are attempting to alter some political balance and attitudes, but it's hard to imagine that this would do anything other than cause more retaliation---unless that was exactly their intent.

Taliban are pretty close to this anyway.