[Jan_Sobieski]

In 2013, the U.S. Military leaders formally lifted the ban on women serving in combat positions, with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta saying women have become an "integral part" of the military and have already demonstrated their willingness to fight during the wars of the last decade. The folly continues today with U.S. Military leaders calling for women to register for the draft...

[clamper1797]

I can’t think of a more cowardly act than putting women in front line combat as a policy.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Women in combat has been tried for thousands of years. It never works. Now is there a place for women in the military—yes. Women have always been a part of the military—as cooks, nurses, washerwomen, spies, and playing other rolls. It boils down to two views of the world. 1) we live in the same universe as always—filled with horror, war, and tyranny or we live in (2) a new enlightened world where people are different and somehow more civilized. I believe the world is much the same and the forces that have been in play since Sargon I (the first realy Emperor and one who broght 150 years of peace to the Middle East). We should be reluctant to go down this rabbit hole in our time.

[The_Media_never_lie]

This is not really a movement to have combatant females; it is more of a commie movement to cut our military down to third world effectiveness in order to level the playing field.

Interesting reading is the communist’s use of women in combat in the Spanish Civil War. It was fun until the shooting started but did not end well.

[central_va]

Women shouldn’t be in combat and neither should 14 year old boys who are the equivalent in strength to grown women.

[BitWielder1]

Ignoring the laws of physics and biology will be very costly.

[Java4Jay]

Women and transsexuals shall not be assigned front line combat... PERIOD

[RoosterRedux]

IIRC, at present all this means is that women will get to compete for combat jobs. If they can prove they are the most qualified, they get the job. If not, they move on to something they are qualified for.

[blueunicorn6]

Females had their opportunity to express their opinions on females in the Combat Arms.

The silence from females was deafening.

They didn’t care because they didn’t have to. They couldn’t be forced to be in the military like males can.

I say let the females express themselves on this issue. Stand up and tell the government that females shouldn’t be in the Combat Arms.

Otherwise, pick up your rifle and charge that machine gun.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

War is all hell. Let them see it up close and get a lot of folks killed. It’s the only way to get them to scream for change. So many abort their kids anyway, no need to keep them protected at home. The can collect shrapnel and get an education. Ann Coulter would be much educated, like men too.

[DuncanWaring]

Any society that sends its women to fight before it sends its cane-borne old men and non-shaving boys deserves to be destroyed, and will be, by societies that do not make that mistake.

[MasterGunner01]

Now that the ban on women in combat is lifted, it's time the ladies had to register for the draft like guys do when they turn 18. What would happen to all this female zeal for combat slots if you told the women that if billeted to a combat unit, they’d be treated exactly like the men and expected to go out and die just like the men. I foresee all female units of hard charging, PMS crazies going after the Muslim hordes! Yeah, right.