I respect these women that made their mark in combat, sounds like they kicked ass. Having said that, I don’t think they have a place in front line units. We don’t need to see raped and tortured pows. We don’t need to see any more mangled female soldiers than we have to. Hell I’d prefer gays getting shot up before women, and I’m no supporter of gays in combat.
Google up what the Japanese did to American nurses they took prisoner in the Philippines during the early months of WWII. It was savage, subhuman.
The American public can be jollied along for a while, but one really egregious episode like that would have them asking a lot of starchy questions, and I wouldn't want to be the bureaucrat or pol who happytalked them into letting women go into harm's way. Those are our next generation's mothers-to-be we're pouring into BDU's. This Left-wing Marxist "there is no difference between a man and a woman" stuff is pernicious, and wittingly so, and we ought to snap to that right now.
One more thing. We haven't been in a major war with a major adversary since 1945. Speaking of which, a friend of my dad's who flew with Claire Chennault and his Flying Tigers during the Big Show (my dad was with the 8th AF in the ETO) told my dad some things about what he saw the Chinese do to Japanese prisoners during the war. His bottom line was, "the Japanese were cruel, incredibly cruel and brutal. But next to the Chinese, their cruelty was as the cruelty of little children. The Chinese give me the willies."
Something to think about as these Leftist trolls shout about putting women in harm's way.
Cb.. you are right. I had many heart to heart talks with my fellow soldiers, which made me reach the same conclusion. I admit, it was hard to accept that those *real men* had a difficult time thinking of me as anything other than like their mother, sister or wife. I bristled and insisted on doing my share, but I soon found out I appreciated men and myself more when I let someone hold the door. These girls are doing great things, breaking all the norms. Give me a real man, and I will be a real woman. Give me a weapon and I will soldier up and get the job done.. afterwards I want to be treated like a woman by my man. All women have some warrior in them, it comes from the passion for their loved ones, the intensity in which they will guard their babies and home. This can be channeled into the defense of our Country. Go My sister’s in arms.