Report: Women Should Be Permitted In Combat Roles

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Source: KKTV

A military advisory commission is recommending that the Pentagon do away with a policy banning women from combat, saying that military assignments should be designated by qualification regardless of sex.

A long-standing policy banning women from serving in combat, thought archaic by its opponents, may be growing closer to repeal.

A military advisory commission is recommending that the Pentagon do away with the policy, saying that military assignments should be designated by qualification regardless of sex. Currently, women are not allowed assignment to any unit smaller than a brigade whose primary mission is direct combat on the ground.

While women are technically prohibited from combat, thousands of women have found themselves in combat roles during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars due both to the lack of a true front line in either conflict and their service in combat support roles, such as medics and logistics truck drivers. A special panel set up by Congress two years ago to look at diversity issues is meeting Friday to go over the final draft of their report.

According to the report, there should be “a level playing field for all qualified service members.”


Read more: http://www.kktv.com/news/headlines/Report_Women_Should_Be_Permitted_In_Combat_Roles_113613844.html

[RC]

1. I think a better idea would be to ban men from combat roles, not let women in...

[damntexdem]

4. Some combat roles are necessary for any country.

And there should be equality in such roles.

The issue is to prevent unneeded combat in general.

[Aviation Pro]

2. No....

...hell no.

[Capitalocracy]

3. I'll take equality where I can find it

even if it mostly benefits our war machine. Still a step in the right direction.

[2Design]

5. ERA failed because the right (repubs) used the bogey man of women in military

seems now they need more bodies in combat for fodder

[sulphurdunn]

6. People who think women should serve

in combat roles mean well but should be very careful what they wish for. Also, you can bet your ass that if the Pentagon wants women for combat roles it isn't in the interests of equality.

[Le Taz Hot]

7. Equal rights means equal rights.

I've always believed women in the military should be in the front lines with their male counterparts. Why are we so willing to sacrifice our sons and not our daughters? Remnants of by-gone days when the wimin-folk had to be protected (usually from their own men folk but that's another thread).