Should Women Serve in Military Combat Positions? Why shouldn’t women be able to serve in the military? For a while, the military has been deciding whether to let women serve in the military, but now they can. Women are just trying to serve their country proudly. Therefore, women should be able to serve in the military. It could give women protection because they would have a fighting experience. Even if the arguments underpinning the ban on women serving in the military have weakened, is there enough sufficient justification to change it? The Joint Chiefs of apparently believe so there is, as they have unanimously recommended the ban lifted. When today’s senior leaders were serving time in Iraq and Afghanistan, they realized that the
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The announcement that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has lifted the ban on women in direct ground combat has brought out the normal pundits who either support it or who don’t support it. No one believes all women can do all the jobs that are required in military combat arms. Military jobs should be based on performance and those who are able to participate in the military and get stuff done right. Yet, the naysayers have probably never worked with dedicated women to even know how they work and so they are just saying no. So they should at least work with them before they just say no. However, the people that say women shouldn’t be able to be in the military haven’t even worked with them the dedicated women who only want a chance to serve and protect their country from harm. Like they might want to protect the U.S. from Isis. It is the women’s rights to be in the military and their choice if they want to or not. “ It works very well as long as women hold the standards they are supposed to hold,” said Colonel Gjerde, who was the commander of Norwegian forces in Afghanistan in 2012. It’s not a big deal because women who go into these fields in combat know the standards if they really want. In 1985, Norway became the first country in NATO to allow women to serve in all combat positions, including
The announcement that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has lifted the ban on women in direct ground combat has brought out the normal pundits who either support it or who don’t support it. No one believes all women can do all the jobs that are required in military combat arms. Military jobs should be based on performance and those who are able to participate in the military and get stuff done right. Yet, the naysayers have probably never worked with dedicated women to even know how they work and so they are just saying no. So they should at least work with them before they just say no. However, the people that say women shouldn’t be able to be in the military haven’t even worked with them the dedicated women who only want a chance to serve and protect their country from harm. Like they might want to protect the U.S. from Isis. It is the women’s rights to be in the military and their choice if they want to or not. “ It works very well as long as women hold the standards they are supposed to hold,” said Colonel Gjerde, who was the commander of Norwegian forces in Afghanistan in 2012. It’s not a big deal because women who go into these fields in combat know the standards if they really want. In 1985, Norway became the first country in NATO to allow women to serve in all combat positions, including