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Although women are eligible to fill most jobs in the military, they are barred from some of the most hazardous positions, including infantry troops, special operations commandos, tank crews and others that would place them in front-line ground combat. Guerrilla wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — where front-line and rear-echelon troops often share the same dangers — have rendered the military's efforts to regulate risk difficult if not impossible.
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ARMY BETRAYING ITS WOMEN…AND MEN
Under current regulations, women cannot be forced to serve in smaller direct ground combat units such as infantry or armor battalions, or in companies that collocate with them. If the Defense Department wants to change these rules, law requires that the Secretary must notify Congress no less than 30 legislative days in advance, when both Houses are in session. Despite the “collocation rule” and notification requirement, the Army is unilaterally assigning women to previously all-male forward support companies in its new “unit of action” land combat teams, key to “transformation” to a lighter, faster force.
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ARMY CHANGES DOD RULES ON WOMEN IN LAND COMBAT
After months of pressure on the Department of the Army, which caused the service to adjust but not end single-minded efforts to force female soldiers into land-combat collocated units, the Center for Military Readiness filed a formal Request for Corrective Action with the Department of Defense (DoD) Inspector General on March 9. | |
Collocating Coffins
Political correctness in the U.S. military did not end with the Clinton administration. President Bush's military is also pushing an ideology of "equality" at the expense of military effectiveness. For the sake of an absurd feminist experiment, the Bush military is willing to sap its strength, expose women to torture and death and mar the lives of children and families. The price tag of this experiment is on the body bags carrying mothers, wives, and daughters who have died in Iraq, and on the growing list of orphans produced by the war. Read the casualty reports: Lori Ann Piestewa, 23, mother of two preschoolers; Melissa J. Hobart, 22, mother of a 3 year-old; Jessica L. Cawvey, 21, single mother of a 6-year-old; Sgt. Pamela Osbourne, 38, mother of three children, ages 9-19, Katrina L. Bell-Johnson, 32, mother of a 1-year-old.
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Women at War: Scarred Survivors
No one shot at Pamela Schultz. No one lobbed mortar shells in her direction, or planted mines under her vehicle during the time she was in Jordan as a master sergeant in the Air Force Reserve's 163rd Air Refueling Wing. The nearest she came to death, in fact, was when she helped load planes with the caskets of American and coalition forces killed in Iraq. But something in Schultz was deeply damaged anyway. | |
Women in combat ban again at issue
Said Mrs. Donnelly: "The deployment to Iraq of scores of female soldiers in the 3rd Infantry Forward Support Companies, which are coded by regulation to be all-male, indicates that the Army is saying one thing and doing another. This is the wrong choice. ... The deployment violates current Defense Department rules and the law requiring congressional notice well in advance."
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Mother Of 2 Called Back To Army
A Warwick mother of two who thought that her military career was long behind her has gotten the surprise of her life -- she's being recalled to active duty.
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Women Being Forced Into Combat
Doing the job of the media, Elaine Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness (CMR) broke a significant scoop. Donnelly had obtained information, including official briefing documents, indicating that the Pentagon is moving to force female soldiers into new land combat brigades. If this is because of shortages of male combat soldiers, then the Pentagon is not telling us the truth that the Army has enough troops to win the war in Iraq. |
Pentagon Moving to Force Women into Land Combat
The United States Army plans to force female soldiers into land combat units, despite current regulations and a law requiring prior notice to Congress. CMR has learned that some Army leaders believe there might not be enough male soldiers to fill the new “unit of action” combat brigades. They are therefore making incremental changes in policy that will soon force young unprepared women—many of them mothers—to fight in land combat. | |
What Kind of Nation Sends Women into Combat?
In the early 1990s, I was a staff member on the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces. The evidence the commission gathered was clear on one thing: Women don't belong in combat. |
Women in combat (again)
Critics of placing women in combat units say the Army is manipulating language in rules governing such placement to achieve a social objective that would substantially and significantly change the way America fights wars and possibly put all soldiers - men and women - at greater risk. |
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