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To: Tailgunner Joe
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.
12 posted on 11/26/2003 6:52:58 PM PST by Endeavor
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To: Endeavor
I don't think women belong in combat, with the exception being as pilots.

I am affraid that you did neither pilot a figther jet, not thought through about the consequences of having a woman pilot.

In war, sometimes planes get shot down. Some other times, planes malfunction. In either case, the pilot, if is lucky, parachutes and get captured. Then what? The woman pilot tells her captors that on TV our planes do not crash or get shot down? And if they laugh, does NOW sues them?

And you don't need even a war to see that piloting jets is not for women. Almost everybody - men, women, teenagers - can pilot a plane AS LONG AS EVERYTHING IS NORMAL. As soon as something is out of ordinary, men are wastly better in judging these situations and have a much better chance to reach the correct decision.

If you need more proof that women do not belong in the cockpit, then here it is: Tara Hultgreen

25 posted on 11/26/2003 8:29:16 PM PST by ConvictHitlery
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To: Endeavor
BEsides planning, supply lines, medical staff etc. DO DO heroic work. They are AS important as combatants.
67 posted on 01/07/2004 6:06:19 AM PST by Cronos (W2004!)
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