I must be old school or something because I just don’t think it appropriate to put women in combat positions. Support positions sure. But if they want all this equality stuff then let them be drafted just like men, maybe that will wake them up. All I know is that if I had a daughter of draft age there’s no way I would allow her to be sent off to war.
You aren’t “old school”. You are sensible.
For some reason, people think that women are fine in support units, but they aren’t.
Some people also think we should draft women, which merely means that again, we are replacing desperately needed men, with females.
“I must be old school or something because I just don’t think it appropriate to put women in combat positions. Support positions sure.”
It’s not that simple. When you put women in support billets in the Navy, and not on sea (potentially combat) duty, you are taking a shore duty billet away from a male, increasing his shore/sea duty rotation. This creates a moral problem and causes division. (My bone fides: 20 years in the Navy, 1977 to 1998.)