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   mickey1339 said, 5 months ago

   War can be counted on for one thing, it’s an equal opportunity killer…
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   cjr53 said, 5 months ago

   This is a step forward towards equality for all. Women are not required to volunteer for military service.
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   cjr53 said, 5 months ago

   The real answer is to stop having wars.
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   Let’s leave Afghanistan now.
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   ConserveGov said, 5 months ago

   Looks like even super-libs like Morin aren’t too happy with the commander-in-chief anymore.
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   Robert Landers said, 5 months ago

   @ConserveGov

   I do not actually know how President Obama feels about this, but the decision itself came from the military chiefs in the Pentagon.

   And for once, I will stand with you on this particular issue. Do we really want potential (and in some cases, actual) wives and mothers to be deliberately placed into active combat positions?

   I say no!

   I know that they have sometimes had to do this in all the wars this country has experienced. But to deliberately place them into the horrors of actual combat does not seem to me to be giving real progress to either men or women.

   Is it not bad enough that men sometimes have to do this?

   Should we now have women (who already sometimes have problems with PMS, now be able to experience the joys of PTSD as well?

   Perhaps I am old fashioned, but again I say NO!
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   Clark Kent said, 5 months ago

   @Robert Landers

   Do you want you son, brother, cousin, uncle or father coming home in a flag draped coffin instead?
   To hell war. The illegal and greedy actions of the cheney/shrub/rumsfeld misadministration have turned the entire world against us and they hate us with good reason. Close most overseas military bases. Employ our veterans and jobless in good union jobs rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. Restore the 75% tax rate on the wealthy from the 1960’s. restore Glass Steagal with sharp teeth.
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   NebulousRikulau said, 5 months ago

   @ScottPM

   Nope. This has been discussed up there since the 70s or so, and there have been policy changes since then, little by little, leading up to this.
   
   @Robert Landers
   I can think of little more terrifying than an attack by a division of female soldiers with Automatic Weapons AND PMS.
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   masterskrain said, 5 months ago

   Before you complain…yes, this is a paste, but it’s easier then writing it out again…

   I am curious…does this mean that the Women who are currently in the military can be transferred to front-line combat groups, or does it mean that new, incoming recruits can volunteer for them?

   Just wondering, since there is no draft. If Women who enlist voluntarily know they can end up on the front lines, and join KNOWING that fact, then I don’t see an issue with it.
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   masterskrain said, 5 months ago

   @NebulousRikulau

   I used to laugh about the thought of Captain Janeway, on “Star Trek – Voyager” coming up to the Borg and announcing “Attention Borg Ship…I’ve got PMS, and a Phaser! Don’t screw with me!”
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    mikefive said, 5 months ago

    The female has only 60% to 80% of the strength (pick your source for these numbers, they vary considerably) of a male of the same height. The male averages about 5" taller than the female thus exaggerating the female/male strength difference. In front line combat, meaning the “grunts”, strength is a prime consideration. If the combatants are of equal training, the larger person will normally win making “bigger is better” of exaggerated importance to the front line. I hope that this decision to put females in front line positions was made from reasoned, experimental data and not political correctness. I would hate to see something done in the name of political correctness get troops unnecessarily killed.
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    Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago

    Wars have always been a way to depopulate the earth. Natures way of saying: bye!
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    DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

    Apparently, your military-industrial complex is running out of American men to act as cannon fodder for their financial interests so it’s time to start “using” women.

    
    Yeah, that’s progress.
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    Adrian Snare said, 5 months ago

    @cjr53

    This is too difficult for tea bagging conservatives to comprehend.
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    mshefler said, 5 months ago

    @mikefive

    Yeah but automatic weapons are a great equalizer.
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    Robert Landers said, 5 months ago

    @ScottPM

    In order for President Obama to make every decision for even our bloated military, he would have to be cloned literally thousands of times!

    How would all of you Obama haters like that!!
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