Women in combat: Will they have to register for the draft?

[Billybob]

That may be a difficult question from a societal standpoint, but the answer is straightforward, according to a legal analysis. On Thursday, the Pentagon will lift its ban on women in combat.

http://news.yahoo.com/women-combat-...haWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3#

 

[rsc]

It would be fair, but as a society would it go against our social norms? I don't think they should be drafted to combat positions, but then I don't think they should be in combat positions jumping out of airplanes with a mortar plate strapped to their ruck either. Some things take too much brute strength for women to be 100% equals in.

 

[aeropb]

glad they get the same rights we do

 

[Billybob]

If any "daddy's little princess" could be drafted would it change the country's attitude about going to war?

[Critics of women in combat argue that culturally, the prospect of women being drafted might make the country reluctant to go to war.

To that, Professor Mansoor says, “It should be: That’s exactly the debate the country needs to have.”

But while the notion of women being drafted “may add some measure of hesitancy to the decision, I don’t see it as swinging the decision,” he says.

Even so, “Congress and the president should agonize over going to war. Questions of war should be difficult,” Mansoor adds. “They should not be as easy as they’ve been in the past 10 years.”]

http://news.yahoo.com/women-combat-...haWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3#

 

[Billybob]

Combat rules don't keep women off battlefield

[Lt. Dawn Halfaker was barred from serving alongside men in ground combat when she went to Iraq in 2004 as commander of a military police platoon. But that didn't keep her out of the fighting.

Halfaker: "I was on the front lines every day for five months."

Martin: "You were busting down doors?"

Halfaker: "Literally yes. We were literally busting down doors."

Martin: "You were doing all of the combat operations of an infantryman, it sounds like."

Halfaker: "We were operating side by side with the infantry ... we used a lot of the same weapons. We did a lot of the same missions."

Halfaker's platoon, which had three other women in it, ran over 100 combat missions.

"I had 33 people's lives in my hands and I never once doubted sending a female on a mission, or giving them a certain set of responsibilities," said Halfaker.

That included loaning her best machine gunner to a special operations unit.

"Every time they would request a specific gunner and it was always a female to man the .50 cal," said Halfaker.

That gunner was Spc. Victoria Rivers.

"It was just kind of euphoric, working side by side with some special forces team. It was pretty cool," said Rivers.

"She was just top notch," said Halfaker. "Great soldier and it was just funny to see this tiny little female up there manning the .50 cal and just fitting in with the special ops guys."

That mission went off without a hitch. But later, Rivers and Halfaker were on a regular MP patrol when Halfaker's Humvee was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.

"There was this big fireball and black smoke billowing out from underneath the truck and the doors of the Humvee," said Rivers.

"I was on the wrong end of an RPG and had quite a tangle with it. And it came through my shoulder," Halfaker recalled.

She lost her entire right arm

Both women are out of the army now. Halfaker is running her own company in Virginia. Rivers is studying to become a nurse in Oklahoma.

Until now, Rivers has never talked about her combat experience to anyone outside her immediate family.

"Why did you decide to talk about it this time?" Martin asked her.

"Because I think people need to realize that it's not just the men getting hurt," she said, brushing a tear. "It's the women too."

Nobody told the enemy American women are barred from serving in combat...]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57373592/combat-rules-dont-keep-women-off-battlefield/

 

[swampratt]

I thought they were in combat already..Guess so.
I would not care if my daughter was on the front line..if that is where she want's to be.
Live with a house full of women..They think they are bad A$$-- most of the time.
So let them fight.
There are plenty that are really strong..and if not they can get that way..
Not all about strength as it is about special talents one may poses.

many ways to look at it.

 

[Wild Weasel]

There is no draft Clinton adminstration removed it. So no need to worry about princess.

 

[TedKennedy]

The threat of "daddy's little princess" getting drafted won't prevent politicians from sending young folks off to war....

Most of them manage to keep their kids out of the fight. Or in a safe "duty" position.

War Pigs.

 

[dwkennedy]

There is no draft Clinton adminstration removed it. So no need to worry about princess.

Selective Service is alive and well. Fail to register and unpleasant things happen to you.

 

[Wild Weasel]

Selective Service is alive and well. Fail to register and unpleasant things happen to you.

Like I said there is no draft. There is only a registry for males 18-26.