Ban on women in combat to fall
Lewis DiuguidUnder President Barack Obama, gays were allowed to openly serve in the military with the ouster of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
Now it’s women’s turn. The ban on women serving in combat will soon be lifted. It would have been a big deal during the Vietnam War.
But since then, women have had to prove themselves under heavy fire in battle zones in Afghanistan and Iraq. They have shown themselves to be just as capable as men are in fighting.
About 200,000 women are among 1.4 million active duty personnel in the military, McClatchy Newspapers reports. Opening the combat doors to women will likely increase the number and intellectual quality of the U.S. armed forces.
JR Beillenhouser
4 months, 3 weeks agoThe armed forces is not a sociology experiment.
Perhaps Lewis should do some research (gasp) instead of just parroting talking points. He should read what it was like on the bletzkreig to Iraq and how marines sat on each others laps, overstuffed in transportsm forced to urinate in water bottles or defecate in bags in front of everyone else because they were stuck for 40 hours at a time. Probably not a good idea.
If it is to go through though, there should be no double standards for infantry man/woman. We need to make sure that injured personal in the field can be properly evacuated by any other personal.