My Dad was a WWII vet in combat in the South Pacific. He did not believe that women should have been in a combat zone. Even the nurses were flustered near a combat zone. That was my Dad's opinion/observation. But he was running a combat brigade, and believed that women should have not been involved in a combat situation scenario.
My Dad is dead now; so I cannot further his comments and questions to him in present day combat scenarios under Rummy's Pentagon with Franks running the war.
Regardless, I BELIEVE that my Dad was probably right.
BTW, My wife of 33 years is one tough ... And we are both proud suppporters of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy!
Cheers, Boys and Girls!
Merry CHRISTmas!!!
Your daddy was right and history provides this same lesson repeatedly.
The only societies to purposely send mothers and daughters and sisters into combat were either desperate or stupid.
For us, it's a stupid indulgence because we are so relatively omnipotent we can afford it.
Even in hardcore third world cesspools with civil war intensity which is the theater of conflict I am personally familiar with, it was rare to see a female combatant. It happened but was the exception more than the rule. They would rather toss a Kalashnikov into the hands of a 13 year old tweaked up on stimulants and hunger first.