Open Military

From the BBC:
"US to open all combat roles to women, defence secretary says"

 

US Defense Secretary Ash Carter has announced that all combat roles in the US military will be opened to women. "America's force of the future," Mr Carter said, must be able to benefit from the "broadest possible pool of talent". The move will lead to some 220,000 openings to women, he said.

Mr Carter is to give the armed services 30 days to submit plans to make the change. The US military has been easing restrictions over the past three years. A ban on women serving in combat roles was lifted in 2013 but the military was given until 2016 to make the case for specific posts they thought should remain closed. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen Joseph Dunford, had argued the Marine Corps should be allowed to keep women out of certain roles, citing studies showing that mixed-gender units are not as effective as all-male ones. But Mr Carter rejected the argument. "There will be no exceptions," he said. "As long as they qualify and meet the standards, women will now be able to contribute to our mission in ways they could not before.  "They'll be allowed to drive tanks, fire mortars, lead infantry soldiers into combat."

 

 

^ As long as a person (male or female) meets all the requirements and qualifications to perform a specific task I don't see any issue in opening up every field. Women have been fighting and dying alongside men in wars since wars were first fought. Even when women were limited to certain fields (ie nursing) or placed in what was thought to be "safe areas" they could be wounded or killed. Women have every right to fight alongside men and be recognized as equal. Some people say that women aren't cut-out to be soldiers. Some women are the same way that some men are. Not everyone (male or female) would make a good soldiers, but those women that want to should be given the same chance as men to prove themselves. ^

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34994134