Why are we sending Teenage Girls into the Battle Zone?

AP (Yahoo News) ^

[optik_b]

Jessica Lynch is known for her smile, her laugh and for loving children so much that she wants to be a teacher. "That smile is all you ever see," Glenda Nelson, a close family friend, said Monday. "No matter what, she always had a smile on her face."

Lynch, who aspires to become a teacher, joined the Army to get an education and because it was one of the few opportunities available in a farming community with an unemployment rate of 15 percent — one of the highest in West Virginia.

Once she entered the service, Jesse, as she is known to family and friends, would often write letters, send e-mail and call home.
The young woman is "every mother's dream of a teenager daughter," said Lorene Cumbridge, a cousin.

[optik_b]

I seriously doubt President Bush would like his daughters to be in the combat zone. I don't understand the military reason for having teenage girls sent into the combat zone.

[dennis1x]

the military is meant to break stuff and kill people....if you arent up for that, dont leech and expect a handout.

[JennysCool]

The feminists have insisted on it for years.

[breakem]

I'll take a stab, because they volunteered and passed basic training? Just a guess.

[fishtank]

We need to contact the White House and ask that the Clinton era rules be dropped.

[elephant]

Are you a troll?

[leadpencil1]

Now you did it.

[optik_b]

So none of you guys have a problem with sending teenage girls into combat zones?

[rolling_stone]

Welcome to FR! It's a feminist thing Clinton put into effect....

[stevio]

Welcome to diversity.

[dennis1x]

no, i have a problem with letting teenage girls joining the military.

[homeschool mama]

You win!

[Solson]

First, it's a volunteer Army, etc. She signed up knowing the full range of situations she could find herself. Second, the left, the feminists, and the equal-opportunity-to-die folks all pushed for this forever.

Bush didn't put this girl there...she did.

[optik_b]

Are you a troll? Hell no, I am totally behind this War, in fact my cousin is over there right now.

[doodad]

optik_b signed up 2003-03-09

Welcome to FR

[skeeter]

ping

[elephant]

If you sign up for the military, you MUST think about the possiblity of war. That goes with the terrritory, right?

[dljordan]

Because Bill Clinton's administration listened to a bunch of radical feminists that insisted that women should be allowed in the support lines. Women are just as good as men in combat even if we have to change the training requirements to prove it.

[Liberal Classic]

Why are we sending Teenage Girls into the Battle Zone?

The same reason we send teenage boys into battle?

[Rocky Mountain High]

Amen! If teenage girls don't want to go to combat, they shouldn't join the ARMED FORCES!