[blastdad51]

As a christian ,husband , father, grandfather I get to weigh in on this big time. I have a daughter who is in the army she is curently on serving in Afghanistan. While she is over there my wife and I are careing for our two year old grandaughter. My daughter got pregnant while on duty in S. Korea during her first tour overseas. Her useless E-7 of a sprem donor will have nothing to do with his own little girl. Whenever you take young people and send them far away from home, they will do things that young people do and they will do them with far less inhibitions than if they were here at home. They will try to prove thier adulthood every chance they get. The more men and women are thrown together far from home the more problems arise. As of today she is at the Kandahar airbase living in a tent with the rest of her unit, there is one other female in her unit shareing a tent with about twenty guys!!! The only thing seperating them is a couple of blankets hung on ropes. Not only is this a great recipie for sexual harrasment complaints and or emotional entanglements but one for population growth. The last thing a combat unit needs is to function with this going on in the background. Combat units are a mans world where women aren't really welcome, men will be crude, vulgar and behave like animals and this will be offensive to the ladies. To be an effective fighting force we need our men to behave like men, if political correctness gets into the foxhole we will no longer be fielding warriors but panzies.

[sneakypete]

Not only is this a great recipie for sexual harrasment complaints and or emotional entanglements but one for population growth.

I can see sexual harrassment charges from BOTH sides happening from situations like this. I can also see unit cohesion going all to hell if/when the women "choose favorites",and the fights break-out between the male "getting" and "not-getting".