I learned something new today, thank you. I've served under female Soldiers of substantially higher rank, and I've had female bosses and supervisors. Some were good, some were bad, no different than male leadership, really. Honestly, if it were just directives on paper, I wouldn't be able to tell if they were written by a man or a woman. The whole "kinder and gentler" thing doesn't make sense to me, though, because in Korea during my first room clearing exercise, it was my squad leader who told me to make sure every "hadji" was dead. She was very stern about it, too. The gender doesn't matter to me, their skills and knowledge do. Just as with anybody else.
