From: julie@pascal.org   
      
   On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 4:49:50 AM UTC-6, Leszek Karlik wrote:   
   > On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 04:30:29 +0200, J.Pascal  wrote:   
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   > > No one will see me arguing that women should be infantry or special     
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   > > forces because the amount of gear that has to be carried is such that     
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   > > size and strength dictates that the people in those roles are male. (And     
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   > > in general, modern militaries with women in those roles do not deploy.      
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   > > I'm sure Swedes have an inclusive military but when is the last time     
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   > > they went anywhere?)   
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   > 21st century, Afghanistan. :-)) Also, Gulf of Aden and Kosovo.   
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   > Israeli forces, well, they operate in Israel and Gaza, so they don't     
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   > halfway over the world, all the trouble comes to them, or is a short     
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   > War is all about logistics, and a human-power based logistics   
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   > train is not really efficient.   
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   > Basically, you don't even have to go to SF to see women in combat.   
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   > It's enough to look outside of US Armed Forces.   
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   > (See, for example, Bluestone 42, an excellent BBC comedy about   
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   > a British bomb disposal unit in Afghanistan.)   
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   OED is open to women in the US military.  We have decorated (next down from   
   Medal of Honor) a female soldier for valor in battle... but she was an MP   
   responding to an ambush.   
      
   So my point is that examples of a British bomb disposal unit in Afghanistan is   
   not an example of "combat" in the sense that the US military uses when it   
   restricts some military specialties to men only. Of course women are in combat   
   in the US military.    
   They just aren't infantry or combat engineers or special forces.   
      
   -Julie   
      
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