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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the military should be the best fighting force it should be, and introduce women in measured, researched ways that support that and do not threaten effectiveness or cohesion. However, if a directive from above has determined that social engineering is the most important priority then yes, all women should sign up for selective service and go into combat if qualified.  Forced birth control sounds a lot like 'controlling women's bodies" to me---incredibly invasive. That being said, you are government property when you are the military. You are subject to a separate legal code, you have to get constantly inoculated whether you like it or not, etc. so I imagine there is some room for intrusiveness in terms of pregnancies.  Pregnancy is a huge problem on Navy ships; can only imagine how the hanky panky that leads to these pregnancies erodes relationships and stability from the families waiting back home. If women come in en masse as in a draft war footing, perhaps single sex units would be best.[/quote]

But but but we just had a study meant to show women can fight in the same combat units as men and be effective. We spent millions of dollars on it! We just dictated women can be in all combat roles! Same sex units???

Love yhe flip flopping. Yay women can be all combat roles. What, selective service? But we are the weaker sex! [/quote]

The Marine study did not come to this conclusion, but Carter overruled it as per the President's mandate.[/quote]

My point exactly. Despite all evidence to the contrary, the mandate of women in all combat roles as a measure of equality was pushed through. Feminists all over were rejoicing yesterday, until they were not once selective service was brought up. [/quote]

I'm a feminist and I wasn't "rejoicing" it.  I actually didn't have an opinion one way or the other on it.

I don't know the details of the studies, but I kind of view military combat in the same way as other physically challenging jobs:  If an individual has the ability and the willpower to do the job, then let them do the job -- male or female.

The draft is a completely different animal because you are essentially dealing with forcing large numbers of people to do a job they don't want to do and often don't believe is necessary (Vietnam, for example).  So that poses problems, as we saw with Vietnam.   It also is a challenge for the military because you are essentially managing a large group of people who don't want to be there, doing a difficult and dangerous job.

Again, I'm not saying that women shouldn't be subject to a draft, but I think there are practical issues.   But even the draft poses practical issues that, since Vietnam, we have never really addressed -- we've just avoided using it.

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