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Wow. First Obama ends the war in Iraq, then kills Bin Laden, allows gays in the military, and now women in combat!
I think conservatives are going to be signing up for Glenn Beck's utopian compound in droves soon. Let's just hope they drink the grape-flavored kool-aid.
Will women get to enjoy the privilege of signing up for selective service?
I wonder if they will be able to hide in the rear with the gear to get combat pay or ALL women will be required to be on the front line? No more joining the military "for the free education".
Nothing like approving something that has been fact on the ground for more than a decade.
New Roles in Iraq
As the conflict in Iraq has evolved, new roles for women have emerged. While their roles as support troops may be officially defined as defensive, women are fighting back when their convoys come under attack. In addition, the combination of a guerrilla insurgency and the Muslim restrictions on male-female interaction has necessitated that female soldiers be attached to combat units. Some women, like the Lionesses, perform door-to-door patrols and work directly with the infantry.
Observers both in and outside the military agree that the combat exclusion policy, with its attendant collocation restriction, is incompatible with the nature of the war that U.S. forces are currently engaged in, as well as any future conflict they are likely to be committed to in the foreseeable future. As one Army report pointed out, “The nature of the current battlefield makes it impossible to apply strictly the existing rules for excluding women from combat without serious reduction in combat capabilities, degrading the professional development and thus status of women and producing a potentially serious reduction in overall readiness.”
In Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. military has fought wars unlike any in American history. Neither war has had clear front lines — meaning that anywhere can turn into a combat zone.
And that means that women, who officially don’t have combat roles, have been battle-tested — few more so than Chief Warrant Officer Stephanie Rose.
Rose was among the first women to fly the Apache attack helicopter, and she is currently serving her third combat tour, this one in northern Afghanistan.
Now women that turn 18 years of age will have register for selective service. A court had ruled that since they didn't serve in combat they didn't have to register. Well everything changes.
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