Congresswoman fights female-troop limits

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WASHINGTON - Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., the only female veteran in Congress, said Friday she will try to kill a provision in a defense bill that would limit the role of women in ground combat zones.

“It’s both unnecessary and unhelpful,” said Wilson, who is an Air Force veteran.

The House is to vote on a $442 billion Defense Department budget bill next week.

The provision would put into law a 1994 Pentagon policy that bans female troops from working in units below brigade level whose primary mission is direct ground combat. The policy prohibits women from serving in infantry, armor or artillery units, but allows the services to open some jobs to women in combat zones as needed as long as they inform Congress of the change.

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I think banning females from combat is asinine and sexist. If I choose that career over motherhood or some other traditionally feminine career, who has the right to tell me I can’t?
 
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I think banning females from combat is asinine and sexist. If I choose that career over motherhood or some other traditionally feminine career, who has the right to tell me I can’t?
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The military has that right.

Women have no place in combat arms positions. Invariably, those who say otherwise have little to no experience with such positions themselves.

God save the military from social engineers and arm-chair generals.

– Mark L. Chance.
 
I’m sure that Ms. Wilson’s air force experience makes her the expert on how things are for the grunts on the ground. Will she be the one knocking on doors when even more women are coming home in body bags?
 
Here’s an idea, how about we tried to avoid war as best as possible. Then we will have no one coming home in bodybags. Learn how to take threats instead of brushing them aside and waiting to take security measures AFTER thousands of our own have died.
 
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Shinobu:
Here’s an idea, how about we tried to avoid war as best as possible. Then we will have no one coming home in bodybags. Learn how to take threats instead of brushing them aside and waiting to take security measures AFTER thousands of our own have died.
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You should read The Pentagon’s New Map
 
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mlchance:
The military has that right.

Women have no place in combat arms positions. Invariably, those who say otherwise have little to no experience with such positions themselves.

God save the military from social engineers and arm-chair generals.

– Mark L. Chance.
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It’s not the military who’s deciding this, it’s congress. How do you justify your statement that women “have no place” in combat arms positions? What reasons?
 
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