Women soldiers
females serve along side our guys in all arms/branches in half a dozen overseas missions and in our forces on hometurf .
Sexual harassment,illegal pregnancies and failure to cooperate are minor issues if any at all .
In one engagement against Afghan insurgents a female CV-90 gunner recieved commendations for having engaged and "neutralized" 25-30 enemy.
Thats not to say there couldnt be problems - just saying that we are a western ,modern army ,we deploy to Afghanistan,Tchad,Somali waters/Aden bight,been to Iraq,Bosnia,Kosovo,kongo,Lebanon etc etc for over 30 years with women troops intermixed with the guys.
I had girlie -squaddies in two of my squads -one who deployed overseas with us .Pretty good with the .50 cal actually and the HK 40 mm GL
Yes - there were a few incidents of someone messing up with the girls in our battalion.But mostly the chicks were soldiers and treated as such -as well as acted as such.
I do realize that everyone takes different views though .I see it as working with our forces-some else might not agree when recollecting his own experiences.
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