[TheCrusader]

"Dear God, I had hoped this hadn't happened."

I can only scratch my head when I read posts like this. What do people think war is anyway, a friendly game of darts? You send female 'soldiers' into a foreign land to kill their people and you expect them to be treated well when they are captured? This is precisely why we must not send women into combat. IMHO any country that sends its women into combat is a country that has lost its grip on decency.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

IMHO any country that sends its women into combat is a country that has lost its grip on decency.

No argument.

[weegee]

Consider that the people we are fighting believe that it is alright to capture infidels and keep them as slaves (sex slaves and labor slaves). Raping captives and parading them on tv is also common behavior. The Germans and the Japanese tortured prisoners. It is also against the Geneva Convention.

War is Hell but there are some things that are not "permitted". "Toughen up" and "expect the worst" are not appropriate responses. Death is one thing but captured prisoners should not be treated this way. We have heard the agitprop press taking the US to task for the way we have been treating captured prisoners (in Gitmo as well as the Iraq War).

[Voice in your head]

I don't think that there are any plans to change the current role of women in the Army. They cannot join the infantry, armor, or special forces. They are also forbidden from holding an MOS as a combat engineer and almost all field artillery MOS's. Lynch was in a maintenance unit. Her weapon was not for the purpose of her being sent into a foreign land to kill people, but rather for defense of herself and her comrades, in the event that they came under fire. The real crime is that a private had a weapon malfunction and she was unable to correct it. That is either poor maintenance or poor training - in either case, her leaders let her down.