[CO Gal]

I respectfully disagree. I believe men (especially American men) will put themselves or their unit in extraordinary danger in order to save a female. I believe it would damage a soldiers (male)psyche much more to witness a female being tortured/raped/killed then it would be for him to witness a fellow male in the same predicament. I DO NOT think the military should be the place where we play gender games.

[brazzaville]

Good evening.

I'm of the opinion that a soldier is a soldier no matter the plumbing. There are roles in the military that women's bodies are just not designed to fill but, other than that I don't care if the gunship pilot who gets the bad guys off my back is female and I wouldn't try any harder to rescue her if she went down than I would if she were a he.

I believe most troopers will come to view it that way if they don't already. There is something special about the military today, something brought into being by the WOT, and nothing is going to be the same.

Michael Frazier

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

"I respectfully disagree. I believe men (especially American men) will put themselves or their unit in extraordinary danger in order to save a female."

They'll do it to save a man, too. (At least, they did when I was in 'Nam.)