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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHardly Any Female Soldiers Actually Want Direct Combat Jobs
FORT EUSTIS, Va. (AP) Only a small fraction of Army women say they'd like to move into one of the newly opening combat jobs, but those few who do say they want a job that takes them right into the heart of battle, according to preliminary results from a survey of the service's nearly 170,000 women.
That survey and others across the Army, publicly disclosed for the first time to The Associated Press, also revealed that soldiers of both genders are nervous about women entering combat jobs but say they are determined to do it fairly. Men are worried about losing their jobs to women; women are worried they will be seen as getting jobs because of their gender and not their qualifications. Both are emphatic that the Army must not lower standards to accommodate women.
Less than 8 percent of Army women who responded to the survey said they wanted a combat job. Of those, an overwhelming number said they'd like to be a Night Stalker a member of the elite special operations helicopter crews who perhaps are best known for flying the Navy SEALS into Osama bin Laden's compound in 2011.
That survey and others across the Army, publicly disclosed for the first time to The Associated Press, also revealed that soldiers of both genders are nervous about women entering combat jobs but say they are determined to do it fairly. Men are worried about losing their jobs to women; women are worried they will be seen as getting jobs because of their gender and not their qualifications. Both are emphatic that the Army must not lower standards to accommodate women.
Less than 8 percent of Army women who responded to the survey said they wanted a combat job. Of those, an overwhelming number said they'd like to be a Night Stalker a member of the elite special operations helicopter crews who perhaps are best known for flying the Navy SEALS into Osama bin Laden's compound in 2011.
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Hardly Any Female Soldiers Actually Want Direct Combat Jobs (Original Post)
FarCenter
Feb 2014
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msongs
(67,413 posts)1. sometimes equality comes with responsibility nt
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)2. I wonder
If we had an all woman army... what might be different?
Would rape while in a war be such a huge problem?
Maybe women would figure out some other way of settling differences?
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)3. Could you blame them?