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The fact is, as this Wall Street Journal article points out, that 152 women have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that women already serve in forward areas, on Navy ships, and as combat pilots. It's not as big a change as some are making it out to be.

The change is an acknowledgment that women on modern battlefields already are in the fight-152 women have died in Iraq and Afghanistan-and that military rules need to be updated to reflect realities of the current-day war zones. At the same time, the shift establishes a process that could take years to complete.

As your picture above shows, Israeli women have served in combat roles bravely for decades. Canada, Australia, and New Zealand also allow women in combat roles.

Here's my bottom line concern: Will it make the military a better fighting force?

The question here is whether this change will actually make our military better at operating in combat and killing the enemy, since that will be the women's job, too

We ought to answer this question honestly instead going all politically correct once again.

Things are a bit different in Israel.

They are fighting for their lives and the women there know what will happen to them if the Muslim hordes swoop in. They need to be able to defend themselves from the monsters surrounding them.

Hopefully America never reach’s that point.

Pictures of pretty young girls holding fully automatic rifles not withstanding, women do not serve in Israeli front line infantry units. Women in Israel have a military training commitment, albeit shorter and different than that of men, but do not serve in active infantry positions.

In the US, maybe the 101st Airborne Division will never again have to relieve Bastogne, maybe the 1st Marine Division will never again have to march out of the Chosin Reservoir...but maybe they will and it would be comforting to know that they could.

Why is it always a photo of a chick holding a gun, anyone can hold a gun, or shoot one.

If you reach 90 reasonably healthy, don’t you think that you will be able to go to the range and shoot guns?