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One rule bars female and male aviators from entering each other's quarters, while another policy requires escorts for women on base. While aimed at maintaining discipline, the segregation can be isolating, Strye said.

This is sound policy, but look at the reaction:

"If all the guys hang out and play poker in one of the guy's rooms, and I'm not allowed in there, I'll never be part of that group. I'll always be on the outside," which makes it harder to cope with the pressures of deployments, she said. Implicit in the separation, Strye said, is a mistrust that grates on her as a professional. "You trust me to make combat decisions to defeat the enemy," she said, "but don't trust what I do when I go into another person's 'CHU,' " -- a containerized housing unit.

I am amazed that you cannot see damage to military culture here; a breakdown of trust.

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Come on - remember racially segregated units?

The problem is the transition to an attitude of "us" vs. "the enemy" from one of "US men," "US women" and "the enemy." It will come.

I do agree that women should meet the same physical strength and other requirements that are required of the men.

Those nurses at the battlefield hospitals have always been in danger - they should have been trained and armed earlier than they were.

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I am amazed that you cannot see damage to military culture here; a breakdown of trust

I'm amazed that you would post that to me. LOL, I am a retired FEMALE military intelligence officer and I know of at least two RAF pilots who are alive today because of my work in joint commaned during DESERT STORM. Not to mention having written several intelliegnce estimates that made it all the way to the White House and -given what is now occurring which I accurately predicted 10 years ago - which are probably influencing US policy in the Middle East even today.

But I can see you figure I spent my 20 year military career "damaging our culture". Back to the 50's, right? Or whatever era you figure was better. Before women got the vote perhaps?

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Hell, she can't go in the CHU, even for perfectly innocuous reasons. She can't because no female can be in male quarters (and vice versa) because anyone who is in the opposite sexes quarters for hanky panky is violating theater general order #1 and commands are forbidding opposite sex visitation just to safeguard against accusations. There are 100 reasons against gender integration in the military, but many Freepers won't listen.