[Klatuu]

One aspect of having women in combat that I seldom see discussed is the potential distraction they might present in an environment where loss of focus can prove fatal.
Putting young healthy men at the peak of their sex drive in close proximity to young healthy women is setting the stage for catastrophe.

Imagine two young soldiers, one male and one female, sharing a foxhole. Assigned to guard their unit's perimeter. It's a quiet, boring night. What are the chances that their attention might be drawn to each other and away from their duty to protect their sleeping comrades?
Their lack of self control could conceivably result in the death of everyone in their unit if the enemy exploited their compromised position.
I have no problem with women serving in the military, but not at the expense of jeopardizing mission safety or effectiveness.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Imagine two young soldiers, one male and one female, sharing a foxhole..."

That's YOUR fantasy, FRiend. In the Real World, it's not like that. Those guys are your Brothers; not your Lovers. Yeesh.

And your DD214 lists your military combat experience as...?

[familyop]

You are correct. REMFs do it with their women like rabbits. Way too many of them are getting pregnant and expensive. Everyone knows it, but the Pentagon chicks continue to refuse to collect and issue numbers on that.

Women who serve outside of combat specialties are extremely valuable to our USA and always have been. But feminism does not work in combat specialties. To lose a war for such idiocy is "unthinkable" (doctrine from combat leadership training).

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

I can tell you this much from my experience: being in a combat zone is the anti-Viagra.