[elfman2]

"Can someone explain to me just how the ambush of the 507th is directly related to the dangers of women in Combat? "

I thought that is was a tank maintenance unit. Therefore, its assets (Jessica) would be expected to travel into dangerous areas to service equipment. I think that puts it at significant combat risk and on some level, "a combat unit".

[infowarrior]

The 507th Maintenance Batallion is Direct Maintenance Support for the entire 3rd ID. It's usual location would be where all the brigades within the division would be able to utilize it, and to the rear of even division headquarters. They were on the move, to a new position, as dictated by the advance of the entire division. They were ambushed by a column of enemy that had until then been undetected. End of story...

the infowarrior

[usmcobra]

It was a Vehicle Maintence unit, Not a Tank maintenance unit, a Tank maintenance unit would have had one of those Armored Tank Recovery Vehicle that was used to pull over the Statue of Saddam the other day, and probibly would not have been attacked because it looks like a tank, it sounds like a tank and is actually bigger then most tanks.

These were soft skin vehicles with soldiers with no body armor and the bare minimum of ammunition traveling near the end of a long convoy, and it doesn't matter one lick that any women were with them, the results would have been the same or worse, because they were basically unprotected except for their personal weapons.