I think to use women for social engineering experiments in an arena such as this is unconscionable, This isn't about "equality", women's rights. and this will sound crazy - but given ehat I have researched over the past decade - it fit right into the movement to control population. womb control through abortion, sterilization, govt sanctioned food additives - induced infertility and now we have combat, This is a new low by the shadow govt and gia worshippers - -

I am fully supportive of the policy. My concern, and I believe and hope it is unwarranted, is on the implementation level. I do not know about service branches other than my Alma Mater, the Marine Corps, from which I was discharged 48 years ago. Back then there were few women Marines and they had desk jobs for the most part. Since then The Corps has had many more women enlist. Those women go through the same basic training and the male recruits. Let me tell you that the Marine bootcamp is punishing. Anyone who graduates from it is made of hard stuff!

Tough as that is, those Marines who go through Infantry Training Regiment (ITR) (most Marines do not) are headed to be front line ground combatants. That training is severely physically punishing. Some men cannot do it. Some women will not be able to do it. But those who do make it are close quarter war fighters who only care about one thing when it comes to the persons they serve with. Can they do their job? ITR is training and testing. Any woman who passes the test has earned her place in those ranks.

So, my only concern is that the standards applied to women trying to go Army or Marine infantry will be the exactly the same as those applied to men. I believe they will be. As for other combat rolls like artillery, engineers, armor, etc I have am sure most women will do well. In the infantry some men do not so well, so we

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so we have to expect that some women will not. Semper Fi, Maam. Glad to have you aboard.

Women in combat? Gays at West Point? What will be next?

This is long over due as women in the military have been in combat for years and like men in the military have lost their lives in combat. Finally, women in the military will now be eligible for promotions and other opportunities that were not available to them, just because they were not recognized as serving in combat.

what a joke this country has, no more freedom than any other, just another way to make everyone as one

Please let me know to which 'other' you are referring; Tell me something about that 'other' and your knowledge about and experience with or in the 'other' to validate your comment.