Can women go to war?

A intresting post I found regarding this subject....

women are trained to be in combat. the question should be if they should be allowed in combat units as infantrymen, mortarmen, etc., and the answer is NO.

it is not about how well a female is with doing PT or carrying a rucksack. the Army needs to field a fighting force that presents the least problems and mixing men and women in combat arms units is inviting trouble.

i have served in the infantry and support units and i can tell you that i would not want my combat arms forces to look anything like my support units.

that is not saying that females can't do their duty, they can, and they do a great job. the problem would be that a female would not be able to have a family or expect to standout in a all male infantry unit. her chances of success are almost zero.

if she gets pregnant by her husband, her career in the infantry is basically over. she would be a liability to the unit (because she would not be able to train for over a year). if she gets pregnant while on r&r in iraq and she holds a leadership position, imagine the impact that has on a unit (i've seen what it can do to a support unit in iraq).

people want to ignore these issues in the name of equality and they don't understand that a female going into the infantry (no matter how hard she is) is doomed to failure, unless they lessen the standards and completly change our doctrine.

it is a damn shame that men and women have seperate PT standards, but now people want to all of sudden want the combat arms to comform to their warped sense of "equality" by adding females into the ranks.

well, there is no equality in the combat arms and there never will be. the mission is to field the strongest combat force and adding females will not make the infantry stronger, there is nothing to be gained, except more issues that have nothing to do with killing the enemy.

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This is too funny. I used to have a girlfriend who had done service in the U.S. military - like all the rest, for college money of course. Great reason for joining. Here in Sweden we have a conscript army, and women can join if they want to - and they always get the best positions, of course, always become corporals if they aren't outright retarded. I have talked to many of them, and not a single one joined because she wanted to defend her country. Instead, it was about having "fun," seeing if they could "make it," etc. The military has become one big Marxist propaganda field, like schools and many other government fields.

I remember from the first Gulf War, how a female captain in the Air Force was whining because they were going to ask female pilots to do war missions. I think in the end they didn't have to. GET OUT!

In the Izzy army, they have plenty of experience of females in the field. You know what research shows? Women don't cut it. Far more than men, they break under pressure and go "Why are we here? I want to go home!" Gee, could that have something to do with, I don't know, women and men being DIFFERENT? No, let's ignore studies of body chemistry and evolutionary psychology. Fanatical ideology is all that matters!

Studies have also shown that in the field, men will abandon mission objectives in order to protect the females. Of course they will, they are men, and it is their instinct to protect women - that's how we survive as a species. Yet another reason to keep the women far away from the front lines.

What about service jobs in the military? Real smart. Those positions could be used for soldiers to get some rest from the front lines. But fill them with women, and the male soldiers will have to fight in the frontlines non-stop.

But wait - women want to fight too, right? Wrong. Like I said, I have yet to meet a single woman who joined up for the right reasons. (Oh, but I'm sure that all of the sudden, in this thread, we will find one. What a coincidence.) And look now, after the neocon invasion of Iraq: recruitment numbers fall for both men and women, yes, but much more for women. I wonder why?

Nothing like a little WAR to make women BACK OFF from the MILITARY.

They don't have the strength, they don't have the psyche for it. They get in anyway, because of leftist politicians and media. When they do worse than men, it is blamed on men - all that "oppression" and "discrimination," you know. Thanks.