[tacticalogic]

Women don’t belong in combat. Neither do men for that matter, but if it’s necessary, then it’s necessary for men.

Whatever's necessary, is necessary. I don't think I'd care to try to get between Mary McCauly and that cannon at Monmouth, not favoring the taste of cannon swab.

[Dead Corpse]

Or Lagertha, or Boudica, or Freydis, or Brynhild, or Kahina, or Aife, or Catherine of Aragon...

You get the idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_warriors_in_folklore

If they CAN fight, let them fight. Never lower the standards, but don’t deny them if they can meet them...