Female Soldiers Eyed for Combat

[RebelYell]

By Rowan Scarborough
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published October 22, 2004

The Army is negotiating with civilian leaders about eliminating a women-in-combat ban so it can place mixed-sex support companies within warfighting units, starting with a division going to Iraq in January.

Despite the legal prohibition, Army plans already have included such collocation of women-men units in blueprints for a lighter force of 10 active divisions, according to Defense Department sources.

An Army spokesman yesterday, in response to questions from The Washington Times, said the Army is now in discussions with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's staff to see whether the 10-year-old ban in this one area should be lifted. The ban prohibits the Army from putting women in units that "collocate" with ground combatants.

"When that policy was made up, there was a different threat," said Lt. Col. Chris Rodney, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon. "We imagined a more linear combat environment. Now, with the nature of asymmetrical threats, we have to relook at that policy."

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20041022-120846-1796r

What about all those valuable ovaries?

[Dufaeth]

1. There are unborn children in there!!!

I was an egg once. Menstruation is murder!!!

[MadHound]

2. Saw this coming long ago

Bushco didn't dare pop this one out while the election was going on, but this is a stopgap move that they have to do. Lack of troops, they have to make up for those declining recruitment numbers somehow.

But this will only postpone the inevitable. And it is a dicey move for them. People will tend to react stronger when they see women getting killed on a regular basis.

Just one more step towards the inevibtable draft.

[Tempest]

3. When will Boosh's alcoholic twins be signing up?

We need a law which says the politician's kids are the first to go into war.

[RebelYell]

4. Yeah

Make them enlist before they breed! :)