<p>There are innumerable instances where peace officers and soldiers have been over-powered by their prisioners—most of those overpowered were men. I don’t see your point. </p>
<p>We aren’t asking our soldiers to be super-human, just to be able to perform their duties competently. I have found real world examples that illustrate clearly that, when trained, women have performed admirably world-wide and on par with their male counterparts. A poorly trained man is just as bad as a poorly trained women when under arms. To make the comment that a female officer can’t perform their duties as well as a male officer as was implied in an earlier post is just ignorant. Perhaps our disagreement lies with the mission of the Army vs the Navy. Certainly in these times the chances of a soldier or Marine having to come face to face with an enemy combatant is far more likely than that of the average naval officer or sailor, and perhaps the nature of the training at the two academies reflects this, I don’t know. But I do know that the facts are that women are serving in Iraq and Afganistan IN COMBAT situations and performing well. The proof is staring us all in the face today, right now, in Iraq and Afganistan.</p>