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To: zarf

Well, several member of the 1-24 have told me they respect these females and if you don't know what they are about and what they are doing all day every day--read up--then tell me who I should listen to. These females, including my daughter, are medics serving the int 1-25th Stryker Brigade Support Battalion.


4 posted on 05/15/2005 7:29:54 AM PDT by metalcor
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To: metalcor
My friend has been in the thick of the fighting in Sadr City and elsewhere for a year and a half and recieved a purple heart.

He's been with women since basic training and said that the training requirements for women are a joke. The basic training of pro-active combat units are completely separate from the support units of which the performance requirements are much less stringent.

Until the training and physical requirements are exactly the same for men and women, all this clamoring for "women in combat" is PC BS.

The media seek out individual cases and shine a light on them, but in general this is pure hype.

8 posted on 05/15/2005 7:40:51 AM PDT by zarf
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