[Paul C. Jesup]

The only 'empirical data' I can give you is that the military has YET to raise the standards so that it is equal between the sexes and until that day comes NONE of us will know how effective women will be in combat.

Now get off your high-horse and come back down to Earth.

[CyberCowboy777]

I will dismount when the fascism of America is dead.

[MikeAtTheShore]

Unbeleivable. Women are not in combat positions. Its been repeated 100 times are on here. How much physical effort does it take to be a clerk or other non-combat job.

The two women POW'S held up magnificently under pressure.

How would you or I perform under such circumstances? Cut them a little slack please and stop living in the twelth century with the Taliban.