Lol. It's so amusing. Women libbers BASH the holy hell out of men's aggressive attitude, THEN try to explain that women make good warriors because they also have the needed aggression to be good soldiers. PURE, UNADULTERATED HYPOCRISY.
There is ALWAYS an exception or two, but they are just that, the rare exception. You simply DO NOT change the rules for that rare exception.
ANY 18-year-old trained G.I. male could, if he wanted to, cold-cock Jennifer Guay in a nanosecond. That's a fact, Jack.
In combat, the men would be thinking about her in a chivalrous way, worrying about HER safety. Thus, they would be endangering themselves, other male soldiers and their mission.
The women's libbers and other such FOOLS would have the military try to change the basic nature of men and attempt to get them to NOT worry about fellow WOMEN soldiers. Change the basic nature of men? How arrogant and stupid is that? Get the young men to treat the young women like "fellow soldiers"? Incredibly stupid of anyone to think that young men are going to change. Why should they? It's their NATURE to be that way. I think it's JUST FINE. Someone has to defend the cave....I would rather have G.I. Joe. G.I. Jane? Fantasy.
Putting women in the mix against men is like putting children against adults, old people against young people, lightweight boxers against heavyweight boxers. It's not only arrogant, it's just plain stupid.
Armies have tried it. The Russians created a DISASTER in their attempt. Fights broke out between the men....about the women.
It doesn't work; never has; never will.
G.I. Jane is a myth of Hollywood...all make-believe.
Eighteen year old women should have to register for the draft.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Russian example also grossly misused by advocates of women in combat in that they leave out the fact that Russia had lost literally millions of men fighting Germany before they let a few women fill out some combat units?
Fighting for survival of a nation is quite a bit different than a professional expeditionary force fighting overseas. And that is not to belittle the importance of the war in Iraq, but only to say that while if we left w/o a final victory, we would not face immediate extermination as a nation, whereas the Russians faced exactly that.
Good God, you have no idea what you are talking about, especially as it pertains to SPC Guay, who I know through my daughter. She can outbench many of the men and does so, and beat the hell out of male troop that said she couldn't. Heart, dedication, courage makes up for some of the genetic disadvantages. If the troops of the 82nd airborne accept and honor her as their combat medic as they patrol the streets of Mosul, who the hell are you to tell them they are wrong? Tell the insurgents doing battle against our troops that it doens't work. History changes, military capabilities change, and the people needed to accomplish the missions change.