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To: darrellmaurina
Having uniformed women serving in the military on a permanent basis, not just as a wartime emergency measure, is a settled issue and it has been a settled issue since before the Korean War.

Women in finance, legal medicine, were fine. As you should know, before the left got it's way in the 1070s, females were restricted to not exceed 2% of the force.

58 posted on 02/18/2012 3:36:08 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: ansel12
58 posted on Saturday, February 18, 2012 5:36:08 PM by ansel12: “Women in finance, legal medicine, were fine. As you should know, before the left got it's way in the 1070s, females were restricted to not exceed 2% of the force.”

Thank you for your note. I didn't remember the percentage but I did know there was a percentage long ago.

This woman is a paralegal. I do not see a problem with her wearing the uniform, and being trained to handle what could happen if her Army Reserve unit gets called up. We don't have front lines today and anything can happen to anyone during a deployment, whether they're officially in a combat role or not.

You may want to add Army intelligence and logistics to that list of things women could do long ago — some of the early female generals came up through those routes, which probably means they started their careers in the 1950s in the same fields. I'm not sure exactly what MOSes were authorized for women and I'm guessing the rules changed over time based on the needs of the Army, with more women being allowed to do more things during wartime based on the “free a man to fight” principle, and fewer women being recruited for fewer roles during peacetime.

61 posted on 02/18/2012 3:57:23 PM PST by darrellmaurina
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