Women in Combat

heyitsme
Tue, 17 May 2005 09:19:35 +0000

man im jealous too. i don’t graduate till June 25 so that 4 day break before I-Day will be really nice.

If women see combat already then why is there complaining? The current system works so why fix something that isnt broken. With the front lines of war being scattered, some women get their opportunities to fight. Pvt. Broadwell served honorably and her comrades are glad she was there, but who’s to say that a guy couldn’t have done the same job or done it better? Nothing has shown that women perform their combat tasks better than men, the only standards we have are pft scores and other events like that which show the top women meeting the same standards as the lower guys. Women may be able to serve in combat in these isolated instances, but they are not exposed to the daily rigors of front line combat. The firefight Broadwell was in doesn’t happen every other day to her. The attrition factor that I talked about in my earlier posts hints that because of their physical nature, girls are more inclined to injury and less likely to be able to maintain the same level of performance over the extended periods of time that are being asked of the soldiers who comb the streets of fallujah and other places.