Do we want another Jessica Lynch?

ESR ^ | November 24, 2003 | Kimberley Jane Wilson

[rickmichaels]

As far as I'm concerned, Clinton has blood on his hands.

[muawiyah]

http://www.americal.org/awards/achv-svc.htm reports on the exact standards required for ALL American military awards.

The text here concerning the Bronze Star differs from that referenced in the lead article for this thread.

[CWOJackson]

It is totally different. The information given in the article regarding the Bronze Star is utterly bogus.

[Humidston]

>>and complaining about her former bosses to Diane Sawyer on national television.<<

I had not heard about this. Did anyone see her complain about former bosses?

That asked, I really must say today's young women want to be removed from that pedestal we've enjoyed for centuries. Pity.

[PhiKapMom]

IMHO women do not belong in ground combat roles period! The guys don't need to be worrying about protecting women when bullets are flying or when they are captured!

[Air Assault]

Do women belong in combat situations or not?

No.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Sgt. Shawna Edmondson and Master Sgt. Lisa Marie Girman are two women who were kicking butt and taking names, but they're facing discipline for alegedly roughing up Baath Party officials and Syrian terrorists.

[JoeFromCA]

Anyone who has ever been in military combat will agree that women don't belong in military combat.

[Spruce]

My first born child's birthday was september 11. Her 16th birthday was 2001. My daughter has the transcripts, SAT scores, and ACT scores to go to any college. She chose to serve her country.

Wild horses could not have stopped her from making her choice. She is well aware of the added consequences of being a female warrior. And we are all safer for her decision.

[LibKill]

Do we want another Jessica Lynch?

The feminazis do. They LOVE Pvt Lynch, in an unnatural way.

Any FReeper who supports the (thoroughly discredited) myth of Jessica is a Clintoonite.

At the very best, she got her medals through incompetence.

Sorry, Feminazis, but women have two places in war. The honorable place in war for women is the Florence Nightingale model.

The other place is as 'camp followers' or 'ladies of easy virtue'.

If the feminazis don't like this (and they won't) I laugh at them and remind them that the physical strength of a full-grown woman is, on average, equivalent to the strength of a twelve-year-old boy, or a sixty-year-old man.

Those are the facts, screech as hard as you want. I am not listening.

[Endeavor]

I don't think women belong in combat, with the exception being as pilots. Some have said that even as pilots of fighter jets, that women do not have the neck strength to withstand the necessary quick turns one needs when evading a missle strike. I don't know if that's true or not. If it is, then women shouldn't pilot fighter jets.

I'm a woman and understand the desire of my fellow women to want to play a role in defending our country. But after a lot of thought, I believe that women in combat are a tremendous liability.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Please Sign This Petition to President George W. Bush on Women in Combat

[Tailgunner Joe]

Lynch agrees that she did not do anything "heroic."

[Tax-chick]

I don't think women should be in combat, or exposed to it. Not because SOME are not capable, but because of the disruption to the effective functioning of the military.

I risk my life having children, and my sanity bringing them up. Men risk their lives to keep me safe while I'm doing it. (Thanks, guys!) I think it's fair.

[OldEagle]

In my battalion in Viet Nam officers got the Bronze Star for playing horseshoes with the battalion commander, which wasn't all that heroic. It is given for meritorious service which could apply to Pfc. Lynch's conduct as a POW.

[LibKill]

Lynch agrees that she did not do anything "heroic."

This is a breath of fresh air.

[Mr. Mojo]

Do women belong in combat situations or not?

For the last time, no. ....A thousand times no. And frankly, only utterly decadent cultures even consider this question.

[Last Dakotan]

I vote no.