Capster78
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Re: Do you really think women in the Military want to risk their lives in combat?
As a marine, I would think you would understand exactly what I am saying. You know that convoy duty and supply duty do not come in contact with the enemy as much as someone searching out the enemy. Which is why women are a VERY small number of deaths on the battlefield.
You know that the majority of women that do join the Military flock to the Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard, not the Army or Marines.
What I want to see is 50% of those on the front lines being women, or at least close to that number.
It is inclusive of all people in uniform. Most of the individuals who die in combat related incidences are men, but women are among them today. When politicians send other people's kids and other kids fathers to war, they are condemning many of them to death; something most of them vaguely understand. In today's warfare, this means every woman on a supply convoy and any woman on a helo crew, not just the infantry in the "front lines" where combat is imminent. When a rocket lands inside a base and kills people, women can and have been among them. Since most of the dead are men are we to pretend that women are absent so to keep massaging that fragile and frail male ego?
We are numbers on a spreadsheet. Nothing more. Percentage doesn't matter unless we wish to pound our manly chests and scoff at women for existing. Ever since "Eve ate the apple" the male ego in all cultures have designed ways to raise himself above women. Today, they can't even be counted amongst the men in combat related deaths because it somehow insults the men.
As a marine, I would think you would understand exactly what I am saying. You know that convoy duty and supply duty do not come in contact with the enemy as much as someone searching out the enemy. Which is why women are a VERY small number of deaths on the battlefield.
You know that the majority of women that do join the Military flock to the Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard, not the Army or Marines.
What I want to see is 50% of those on the front lines being women, or at least close to that number.