Military Police really doesn't count as a Combat MOS (And I say this as a former USAF Security Policeman) but there typically used that way even though there training only just touch's on the subject. At the most there supposed to do patrols near bases, defend perimeters, and take care of Prisoners of War but as events move on a commander on the ground see's the MP's as Infantry and uses them as such. But the bulk of the training they receive is Law Enforcement, asset protection, riot control, and sundry other minor league work. I believe that the use of MP's for traditionally Infantry related jobs is pretty widespread though in the modern world so a lot of them are learning by doing. So putting women in a MP unit breaks the spirit of the regs if not the letter of them. I can think of one girl I knew who was a dog handler that was deployed to Iraq with a explosive sniffing dog and did plenty of IED detection missions ahead of convoys.
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