mpicky wrote:
I said NO, but I don't think I meant it. Just none of the topics fit.
Women should be allowed in combat. If women are going to serve in combat alongside men, then their PFT standards should be the same. As of now, they are not.
Women already serve combat roles. We have been warring in muslim countries for over 10 years now. For much of that time we have been trying to respect their culture. In their culture, strange men cannot talk to or touch their women. So, there are female troops trained to do this, in combat areas. i think that qualifies as combat. But, they are their own unit.
Maybe women getting killed on the front lines will fuel the outrage than men getting killed on the front lines did not provide? Maybe the public will then demand that wars be justified and necessary? One can hope.
That's exactly what I was thinking.