Women can be used....as Snipers shooting froma secure base...Pilots or Mp guarding enemy POWs...
on the last part...having women guard Muzzies would be funny...
they should not be in combat.....Sorry gals...
Just getting from one base to another and hauling supplies for your mates puts you in a combat zone.
Sorry guys but the concept of “battle zones” and combat aka Pork Chop Hill does not exist in Iraq. It’s all a jungle.
‘course, the fair damsels could sit home and wait for al Qaeda to bring the combat zone to another American city.
First, let me say that I have never doubted a woman’s willingness or ability to “pull the trigger”. I believe that this has been well documented throughout history.
However, among other things, combat is an athletic event, in which loosing has consequences far greater than not making the play-offs for another year. As mentioned by others in this string women do not have the physical strength to perform their portion of the “heavy lifting” so to speak. Consequently, if even one women were to be in, say, an infantry squad, it means that others in that squad would have to pick up her portion of said woman’s slack. Just to give an example, using a sports metaphor, let’s any team in the NFL and create a rule for one year that the selected team would have to have one woman on the field of play at all times. It is my opinion that this team would not even win a single game. This is the impact of physical disadvantage - in combat or sports.