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I'll attack the division that has you in it in answer to your widely sup positional parlor game interrogative. You're in the''mixed one'' right? Women are flying fighter jets and women were flying Apache helicopters, in Iraq, in combat, During Operation Iraqi Freedom. Those here who have served and survived combat or are serving now can certainly speak with more authority on this issue than I ever could. After all, who am I to question a veteran? I'm just one of the sheltered who has slept soundly under the blanket of security provided by those who ''stand ready in the night''. It's my great regret that I never served in our nations military. As an eighteen year old high school senior in 1975 seeing a long, bloody, protracted and badly managed war coming to a horrible end serving in the military didn't seem like an appealing prospect. The American military at the time was not held in any great regard.And frankly I never so much as went out for sports in high school and I didn't think I had what it would take to be a good soldier or Marine. I didn't understand the politics of the Vietnam War and I didn't go along with others who called our troops'' baby killers''The soldiers were not the reason for the failure of the war. And at the time the pay wasn't that great and I had a better opportunity waiting for me after graduation. If a young, patriotic , red-blooded America woman of upstanding moral character and sound mental and physical aptitude and is found to be up to the task wants to join our military and serve in combat to defend and if need be die to preserve our freedoms, why should she be prevented? It's just as much her country to serve and defend and die for just as it is for any America man, isn't it? So I have a question for you ''central va'', Mr. Big Mouth, have you ever served? And if you haven't, why not? Are you a coward? ATFQ yourself Reb.