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Women Allowed Combat Units - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 5th May, 2013 - 3:12pm
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What is your position on this report that states the Pentagon should do away with a policy that bans women from serving in combat units. I really didn't know they had this policy in place.
QUOTE WASHINGTON -- A military advisory commission is recommending that the Pentagon do away with a policy that bans women from serving in combat units, breathing new life into a long-simmering debate.
Though thousands of women have been involved in the fights in Iraq and Afghanistan, they have done so while serving in combat support roles -- as medics, logistics officers and so on -- because defense policy prohibits women from being assigned to any unit smaller than a brigade whose primary mission is direct combat on the ground. On Friday, a special panel was meeting to polish the final draft of a report that recommends the policy be eliminated "To create a level playing field for all qualified service members."
If it were approved by the Defense Department, it would be yet another sizeable social change in a force that in the last year has seen policy changes to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly for the first time in the military and to allow Navy women to serve on submarines for the first time.
The newest move is being recommended by the Military Leadership Diversity Commission, established by Congress two years ago, and expected to send its report to Congress and President Barack Obama in the spring. The Army is doing its own internal study of the question as well.
The new report by a panel of retired and current military officers says that keeping women out of combat posts prohibits them from serving in roughly 10 percent of Marine Corps and Army occupational specialties and thus is a barrier to promotions and advancement...
Though thousands of women have been involved in the fights in Iraq and Afghanistan, they have done so while serving in combat support roles -- as medics, logistics officers and so on -- because defense policy prohibits women from being assigned to any unit smaller than a brigade whose primary mission is direct combat on the ground. On Friday, a special panel was meeting to polish the final draft of a report that recommends the policy be eliminated "To create a level playing field for all qualified service members."
If it were approved by the Defense Department, it would be yet another sizeable social change in a force that in the last year has seen policy changes to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly for the first time in the military and to allow Navy women to serve on submarines for the first time.
The newest move is being recommended by the Military Leadership Diversity Commission, established by Congress two years ago, and expected to send its report to Congress and President Barack Obama in the spring. The Army is doing its own internal study of the question as well.
The new report by a panel of retired and current military officers says that keeping women out of combat posts prohibits them from serving in roughly 10 percent of Marine Corps and Army occupational specialties and thus is a barrier to promotions and advancement...
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Post Date: 23rd Jan, 2013 - 9:00pm / Post ID: #
Units Combat US Allowed Should Women
Senior defense officials say Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is removing the military's ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after more than a decade at war. The groundbreaking move recommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff overturns a 1994 rule banning women from being assigned to smaller ground combat units. Panetta's decision gives the military services until January 2016 to seek special exceptions if they believe any positions must remain closed to women. Ref. USAToday
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Will women have to register for the draft
Now that the Pentagon is lifting its ban on women in combat, questions arise as to whether they can be drafted too.
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Units Combat US Allowed Should Women
If a woman wants to go front lines I say let them go, BUT I'm worried about this. I just would hate to see one of our women caught by the enemy. Also, wasn't there like a study done once that showed if a female combatant was injured in a team it would distract the males to the point that they would leave their mission to help the female?
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