Critics assess U.S. military's role in 'gender wars'

While I am all for a woman getting blown to bits by a piece of artillery in theory if she chose to fight, I believe there is far to many gender perceptions that make it impossible to make female combatants a workable proposition.

Men still value women more then themselves and are to willing to put themselves in harms way to protect that cute little piece of ass. Women on the other hand often think they want to be treated 'just like the boys' but regret every second of it when they actually recieve it and do everything in their power to get out of the situation. On top of that, women tend not to be as physically strong as men and require far greater amounts of water, both of wich are detrimental in long frontline battles, or ground recon missions.

60 military women have been killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Sixty.

That's a lot right?

That means that of the 2784 soldiers killed in Iraq, Less than 2724 were men. Where's the story about the single fathers or teenage boys? The women signed up (by their own free will) and accepted the risks. If you want equality, stop taking the other gender for granted.

Acccording to what I've read, American female military deaths in Iraq make up about 2 and one half percent of the total American military fatalities. I dare say that the great majority of deaths and serious injuries (including permanently disabling injuries)are male. Even when you adjust for the smaller percentage of female personnel, women are at far less risk than men for death and serious injury. The media devotes a disproportionate amount of sympathetic attention to female death and injury in Iraq, and of course, conservatives of both sexes insist that women's lives are more precious than men's when it comes to dangerous military service. Feminists demand equal recognition for unequal risk in connection to women in the military, and conservatives argue that women should be protected more than men because of their role as parents and caregivers.

My 1st hand experience with women in the military has revealed three facts:

1. Women are excluded from the most hazardous/undesirable duty stations; instead, they monopolize filling plush duty assignments diminishing men's opportunity to rotate out of less desirable duty situations.
2. Women cause hate and discontent between the men as they hop (hump) from tent-to-tent. Even the dogs are in high demand! Wouldn’t you feel like King-Kong if the numbers were reversed! I would change the women’s names to days-of-the-week!
3. Women have a myriad of excuses to go on light duty causing men to pick-up their slack. Oh I’m on my period this week!

God, Country, Family, in that order. I am not a conservative or religious person, but there is something about that phrase that rings true.

Anyhow, women are now apparently being depicted as victims, even of their own conscious choices. Men who are drafted are REQUIRED to risk their lives. Women CHOOSE to join the military - it is an option. Feminists wanted women to be equals everywhere, even in the military. Oh well, I guess it was just the concept that mattered. Now that there is a war, well..that's a little different.

Some men who have gone to Iraq have been made to feel guilty by the media, for not being around for their children. Now this. The morale of our combat forces is being weakened by feminists.

-Axolotl

Read the daily authoritative stats on --

http://icasualties.org/oif/Female.aspx

To date, 64 of the 3,035 Iraq war deaths have been females. (This number includes 3 non-American females in the coalition forces.)

Of course, this data omits the percentage of Iraqui women who might be counted among the 600,000 civilian dead since the liberation began.

If you examine the Dept. of Defence's stats
for these deaths, you will discover that 20% of the women soldiers who died were not caused by combat --- they were accidents, illnesses, and suicides.

The U.S. is currently the ONLY western democratic military power seeking to fully gender-integrate its forces.

Even the Israelis gave it up 20 years ago.

They concluded that instinctive male chivalry could not be brainwashed out of their actual soldiers, and so they decided on a policy basis to assign Israeli women "soldiers" to non-combat roles.

How many of the 98% of American boys who died in combat in Iraq to date were trying to protect the 2% females who were trying to drive their Humvees in a straight line?

We'll never know.