>> More importantly, we need female soldiers to search female civilians, and to guard them when necessary. <<
Who did that in the World War I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War? Or weren't civilian women searched and guarded then?
"Or weren't civilian women searched and guarded then?"
During Vietnam the times weren't as PC. Civilian women were searched by men if they needed to be searched. In WWII I doubt there was much need to search women. We were the liberators then. Civilians were our friends in that war. Wish they were our friends in this one as well. Would make me feel better about being there.