nobody will buy them a beer because they are vets? hogwash
Women shouldnt be in combat to start with.
How INTOLERANT of you...
In these wars, one doesn't have to be in a combat position to be in danger. Pretty much everyone associated with a military base is on the front line when the mortars and rockets are coming in or when traveling off-base.
Please name a war during the history of the U.S. (or the world for that matter) in which women were not in some way involved? While you are at it, please define “combat”. Regardless of whether women had arms or were just providing medical treatment to the wounded on the front lines, woman have been “in combat” in most modern wars. This is not to say or suggest that women on the front lines do not present challenges - but, it is what it is.
These are the same folks who think Danica Patrick will win NASCAR and women are just as good a carrier pilot and so forth
Yes...women have always been exposed to war in war zones...kids too but no one is suggesting employing children..yet.
But no one of any note except in myth/legend has ever fielded frontline forces with women..never...there have been a few decent female war leaders in history...Bodicea always comes to mind first.
Women have been most exposed in partisan efforts which are by their nature brutal desperate affairs.
I have lived in brutal desperate affairs regions in Sierra Leone years back and even there very few women were integrated into the various fighting groups and some coulda sure used them....they did use kids btw..boys.
My irks me is that feminine emasculated boys sit at home smoking pot and playing video games whilst women are in harm's way...even women with children at home.
I have an issue with that. It bodes poorly for how we prevail.
It is arrogant to assume that we as a culture have just stumbled upon some new notion that mankind throughout history was wrong about and that really women should be in combat as troops at the frontline....whatever that is now.
That arrogance we have these days that we are so much smarter and more tolerant ad nauseum goes way beyond just women in combat. We as a culture are like kids who think they know so much better than their parents about everything.
We rejected all social precedence starting back in the 1960s and are now reaping the windfall. I was there. We are not better off now but try telling that to anyone under 45.