Here is the test. Put them in their own brigade with no men to do the heavy lifting. We'll see how long the notion of a new frontier remains.
they probably said the same thing about black soldiers....and about black quarterbacks....
I'm against women in combat on principle.....we need to keep some civility in our culture and women and children STILL should have a special position of being kept from the worse of life...
women don't have to be in combat to serve in vital careers in the military....which they do already....