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Pentagon to overturn ban on women in military combat roles | World news | guardian.co.uk
Personally, I'm fine with this as long as they physical requirements are the same. If you can't lift enough or run long enough, you're putting other people in extra danger as well as yourself.
I might be ok with it if they keep the physical and mental requirements 100% the same. My biggest concern is the hygiene requirements. From what I understand the Army requires that all females be able to shower at least once every 3 days. I went weeks and weeks without anything even resembling a shower, sitting on OPs on the top of mountains. For 6 months at our COP we had nothing but water bottle showers.
I just don't see how females could go through that hygenically. I know even us males suffered pretty bad from it.
The sort of fighting that occurs in a COIN environment is much different than a conventional war. Women routinely see combat as they pass by an ambush in a vehicle. My 7 year old could do that. I'm talking about locating, closing with, and destroying the enemy by fire and maneuver Private Ryan style. Someday, we will be in a conventional war again. And when we get to that point, the females will not be able to keep up. That's not sexist, it's just a fact.
What they don't realize is that in a lot of places in afghanistan, it STILL is like that. Foot patrols through the mountains every day and contact several times a week.
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