Study: Women in combat bad idea

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Tuesday, June 4, 2002 | By Jon Dougherty

[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, June 4, 2002

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[Jonathon Spectre]

In a related story, 2 + 2 = 4.

[goldstategop]

Women in front line combat is a bad idea. Families are not ready to see their daughters come home in body bags.

[JohnnyReb1983]

As an extreme conservative many people don't like my opinion on women and feminism in particular. But I will say now that women would have wished that they never would have mentioned women in the military. Because WAR IS HELL. Plain and simple and I don't want any of the women in my family to go through it.

[Thorondir]

I'll take it one step closer to the truth: Women in the military is a bad idea and has terrible, morale-busting and nation risking effects.

[Jeff Chandler]

This just in: The sun rises in the east.

[NYpeanut]

Disagree. Women have a long and proud history of support service in the military. You have a problem with my aunt, the retired nurse, with service in WWII and Korea, my sister-in-law, a jet repair technician, or our daughter, training for intelligence?

[goldstategop]

Support is OK. Direct combat is not.

[UCANSEE2]

Women in combat bad idea. We aren't prepared to see our daughter's coming home dead in body bags.

Here's another one for you. Men in combat bad idea. They come home dead too.

ANYONE in COMBAT, BAD IDEA. They DIE.

I am not a pacifist, so no need to flame. I am just trying to get everyone to see that it is a bad idea period.

Where we can avoid war, we are all better off.

Where we can't, I don't think it makes much difference whether you are male or female. Dead is dead.

Would we take away a woman's right to defend her country? Did we not already accept that men and women are equal?

Or are we more concerned with our sqeamishness at seeing dead women?

[Maelstrom]

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[William Terrell]

Where we can't, I don't think it makes much difference whether you are male or female. Dead is dead.

The idea is not to die, huckleberry, the idea is to brutally wade into it and win by virtue of sheer strength, aggressiveness and commitment to physical confrontation. Most women have a hard time with verbal confrontation of a yelling nature. Well, bullets and explosions aimed at a frail human body is a hell of a lot more disconforting than a raised voice.

Do you want to chance your family's welfare on an assault force not stopped by a mixed sex opposing force?

[citizen4reality]

It isn't about women being equal--it's about what works and what doesn't. I'm a vet. Women have a limited place in the military, in support roles, where they can often do an outstanding job, but that's it. Many (not all) female military personnel still freak when there is a spider in the bathroom, for God's sake. The sexual tension within a mixed unit deployed is also disruptive, not to mention death on marriages when deployments are prolonged and frequent. Placing women in combat units with result in decreased efficiency and increased mortality--ours. And I'm female.

[UCANSEE2]

Oh, I agree that American women should not be used in actual fighting roles in combat. It is nice to see a female agree this is the case, not just the males.

I was also responding to the earlier posts that it was not so much women in combat, but the families seeing their daughters (instead of sons) coming back dead that were the problem.

[David Hunter]

Women in front line combat is a bad idea. Families are not ready to see their daughters come home in body bags.

So they are ready to see their sons come home in bodybags?

[gunnedah]

I realize families are not ready to see their daughters come home in body bags but neither are they ready to see their sons.If you want equal rights then serve equally.All of these people wanting this rights want them until a time of crisis.You cant legislate equality no better than you can legislate crime away.America has gone over the edge when it comes to writing rules and these same rules and guidelines will cripple us before it is over.

[maxwell]

Study: Women in combat bad idea

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Other studies of note:
Sexually Active Women More Likely to Get Knocked Up
People Who Smoke Pot More Likely to Get High
Study Finds Picking Nose in Public Generally Not Socially Acceptable

Okay I'll stop now... Bwahaha...

[Constitution Day]

Sexually Active Women More Likely to Get Knocked Up

Really? D'oh!

8^)

[MeekOneGOP]

ROFL !

[Don Myers]

"Or are we more concerned with our sqeamishness at seeing dead women?"

I think that we are concerned with the security of our nation. Anyway, I think that one "good war" with women in the frontlines would kill the notion of women in combat. In the past, women have served in support roles, and those who trot out what their female members have done in the military are talking about women in support roles.

[Don Myers]

"Do you want to chance your family's welfare on an assault force not stopped by a mixed sex opposing force? "

Yes, many people would do just that.