Claptrap. Having two women successfully complete Ranger School doesn’t in any way demonstrate that women can and should serve in combat. Two women out of thousands does not mean that all women can be infantry or even artillery personnel in the arduous world of direct combat.
Combat is killing and being killed. It isn’t a “job”; it’s a mission that cannot be diluted or distracted and still result in success. It’s already hard to get young men to learn how to fight and kill. Even with the best, hardest training, a certain percentage of men can never successfully do more than make noise and maybe survive.
Adding women to units will not improve combat effectiveness but more than likely distract and diminish combat effectiveness. Units that are less effective lose more lives and lose fights.
Will the families of the dead be grateful that we decided to put women into combat units?
Acording to a comment on another thread, the two women, both West Pointers, were walked through by a “guest” walker - the base general, Scott Miller. That they “graduated” was puely political, as only those two (out of a starting group of 138) made it - after repeatedly failing part of the course and being repeatedly recycled back.
see here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3327289/replies?c=46