FReepers, if you thought gun control is important, this is every bit as critical since it directly impacts the combat effectiveness of our military. This is an attempt to further weaken America. Here is what I wrote my Congressional reps and I encourage everyone to contact their reps and get this stopped:
“I just read on Fox News that Leon Panetta is set to lift the restriction on women in combat. Speaking as a former Captain in the U.S. Army Reserves (Infantry), I can’t begin to tell you how wrong-headed this idea is and the harm it will cause to the combat effectiveness of our military.
In every military where this has been tried, combat effectiveness in the heat of battle has been negatively affected when women are wounded in combat, disproportionately distracting fighting forces who are instinctively more protective of their female comrades.
Israel has been the latest country to try this and it failed. I encourage you to exercise whatever power you have left to stop this dead in its tracks.
I totally agree with you, but we have to understand who is running our Govt. now - avowed Enemies of America, including the marxist Panetta. This is so wrong, and if it stands, if Congress goes along with this, then we are cooked. Which is just what Barry Soetoro, et.al., want. To have a young woman take a slot away from a young man when there is absolutely no way she could ever be physically or mentally qualified means the standards will be tanked even further.
When will the madness stop...I am going crazy with rage.