Should Women be allowed to serve in hand to hand combat in the military?

The fact that an attitude and life-style choice disappeared does not make me wrong. God did NOT put women on this earth to be in authority over men, nor did God put women here to do a man's job. Men have totally forgotten how to be men and women have totally forgotten God's purpose for them in his devine plan of the ages. One of the greatest things wrong in America today is the fact that many women chose materialism over their God given responsability to raise up their children themselves. Everything in America today is just about completely up-side down. I still say that a woman's primary role is to raise her children and take good care of her husband, not be in combat. Ladies, you only have one chance in life to get it right, learn what ya'll's role is according to God's will for you.
 
I know I'm joining this thread late, but I have to say I just love the way this question has been framed - not as being about combat but about hand to hand combat. That emphasizes the physical differences in a way that can only hinder a reasoned debate about the real-world tradeoRAB where the military is understaffed and being in combat most often means something other than feeling the skin on the other guy's throat. It's a typical attempt to ensure by methoRAB other than reason that the conclusion reached is the one already mandated.

Well said. Why indeed? I'd rather have a mentally stable black belt (in any martial art) who happens to be female next to me than a barely-trained male psychopath, but the current policy reverses that preference. It's not justifiable rationally, but only by appeal to latent sexism.
 
At the end of my basic infantry training, I had to march 12 miles with a 60 lb. field pack and a 7 lb. rifle. I don't think many women can do that. The ones that can are welcome in my foxhole.
Dono
 
I would rather have a bag of green beans in a fox-hole with me than a female under a combat situation. Women should be at home raising their children and taking care of their husbanRAB.
 
Why shouldn't women be included in the military. We are equal to men and have the same capabilities. I disagree with people specifically saying "A woman died in Iraq, today." as opposed to just saying a soldier. Because what are they: Women? or Soldiers?
 
Let's have another Dark Age, shall we?

Let's abandon all talk of liberty and equality - these are materialistic lies designed to bring people away from the God-ordained system of feudalism. Let's have priests decide which jobs women can work and which jobs men can work. Let's confine people's options in life on the basis of their gender. And not just gender! Let's constrain choices on the basis of race and social caste, too! In fact, let's constrain choices for everybody!

Why? Because God says we should. These aren't just the worRAB of some odd fanatic who forgot his medication - these are the worRAB of God. Theocracy is not the dictatorship of priests - it is the dictatorship of God, because the priests say they are speaking for God, and since they are speaking for God, then they must be telling the truth when they say they are speaking for God.
 
First of all - welcome to the site, EvelynW.

Secondly:

That's not true...and real men are proud of it, in a positive way. :)

Even though there could be certain women that I would rather have as a foxhole partner than certain men - it does not hold true that all women can perform "manly" tasks. "Soldiering" to me means a person that is capable of handling any and all requirements of war, including hand-to-hand combat.
 
Equal how?
Certainly not emotionally
Physically? I bet not on average.
I just don't think putting women in combat is a good idea, there are too many complications, too many distractions..
Are we expected to have the men take pity on us when the Traveling Menstrals are in town?
How about when we get knocked up in combat? Like that would never happen :rolleyes:
I am a woman and I am perfectly happy letting our men defend our nation. Some things are a Man's job.
 
What I mean is that women in a combat zone opens up the whole wonderful opportunity of rapes. Whether from your own people, or more likely, from the enemy if she is captured. Throw in the complications that could arise in unit morale, such as attraction, a sense of having to protect the women, etc, and it's just not good. Believe me, it's not that I don't think they're capable, I just believe they shouldn't be serving in front-line combat units. Pilots are a different matter, support roles, all that stuff is fine.
 
They know the risks.


There will be complications, yes, but if you let women in, without increasing the size of the army, the quality of the average soldier will increase due to more applications, yet the same number of places.

-Wez
 
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