Quote from a semi-old newspaper that really resonated with me

[skonen_blades]

"Although you'd never know it from reading the papers or watching TV, there are between 20 and 30 separate wars going on today. Because most countries are too poor to afford luxuries like female noncombatants, many of the battle are fought by women.
However, in the world's dominant military-aggressor nation, women are barred from combat positions. The armed forces is one of the last bastions of old-fashioned gender roles in the American job market, along with Hooters and, of course, Hollywood."

What do you think? I don't even know if that's true anymore. Are women allowed into 'hot zones' in the theater of war by the American military? Or are they relegated to support?


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[ragingvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

Women are indeed allowed into the "hot zones." Women can be army, navy, air force, etc and are deployed according to their rank and specialty. I don't think as many women get to be Marines and maybe none get to be Navy Seals because the physical demands to qualify for both are really really intense.
Sexual assault is super high against women in the armed forces by their brothers in arms, though, so there's that.

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

Good to know. I also read an article recently saying that they're finally making body armour designed for women in the army. Up until not so long ago they'd been wearing the male body armour but it wasn't really designed to be a unisex.

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

I just read this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/women-in-combat_n_2535954.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

So I think there was still a barrier there.