Commission wants Women in Combat

A Pentagon commission is recommending that ground combat units be open to female troops, arguing women are already engaged in combat and that keeping them out of operational career fields puts them at a disadvantage when it comes to promotion.
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My Comment:

I’ve had the privilege of working with women in the military. From a practical standpoint, women were very often a drag on my unit! They often getting out of field exercises because of medical issues (real and fabricated), being pregnant, and very often shirked their responsibilities simply because they weren’t strong enough to perform some of the tasks that male soldiers could perform without assistance.

If the reason for filling combat ranks with women is “promotion disadvantages”, that’s not a good enough reason for the change.
When my team (female included) lost a person, for any reason, it put a strain on those who remained.

The belief that males and females are equal on the battle field is a nice-trite-thought, but it simply isn’t true.

This is not to say that females in support positions cant, or don’t ever, kill the enemy… but they don’t… bullets do.

What happens to a female who has to resort to hand-to-hand combat? When she is killed, how will that effect the male soldiers in her unit? I think their effects would be different than if it was a male counterpart killed.

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