csmonitor.com: Do US women belong in the thick of the fighting?

[unhappycamper]

Do US women belong in the thick of the fighting?
from the May 26, 2005 edition
By Brad Knickerbocker
Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Maggie Williams and her daughter Sam Huff had much in common.

As a teenager 35 years ago, Ms. Williams joined the US Marine Corps and became an air traffic controller, directing jet fighters and helicopters in Vietnam as the war there was winding down. Back in the United States, she began a career in law enforcement, married a police officer, and raised a family.

When she was just 16, Ms. Huff told her parents she wanted to join the US Army right out of high school, and later start a career with the FBI. She toughed out boot camp last year and then joined a military police unit driving Humvees through the mean streets of Iraq.

But there the mother-daughter similarity ends.

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[Dogmudgeon]

1. NO.

And neither do men.

--p!

[wakeme2008]

2. when you are in a combat zone ie Viet Nam or Iraq

you can be killed.

But today's volunteer Army/Marines depends more on women than in the days of the draft and Vietnam War. Add to this a lot of the "safer" jobs like cooks have been contracted out to private companies.

So the people that do not want females in the line of fire, the only real way of doing that is keep them out of combat zones. Herein lines the real problem.

Where are you going to get the males for all Bush's Wars????

[ElectroPrincess]

3. Oh, how 'bout Coulter's young strong College Republican Men?!? /eom