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Some aspects of transforming the force are necessary reforms, but this is an underhanded effort to use females to fill positions in combat arms units and an argument will flow from this towards allowing females into the combat arms themselves.

On our FOB we had about a dozen females for 500 or so males. Some ran patrols, but usually with the support platoon for resupply or on MEDCAPs. The rest had jobs that did not require them to leave the FOB on a regular basis. While most did their jobs well, it only takes a few (in our case 4 or 5 out of the 12) to cause a huge disruption-sexual politics, jealousy, distraction, etc.-not to mention having to accomodate them separately for housing, latrines and so on.

The Army has pretty much given in to the feminists as far as I can tell, but they are making a huge mistake.