Women Should Be Allowed In Combat

How would you feel if you joined the army and passed every single task with flying scores and were told that you could not fight in combat? I think that women should be allowed to fight in combat. Where and how women serve in the army should be based on how they train not their gender. For example, if women can meet the same criteria as men can then why not let them fight in the front line. If a woman is willing to help serve her country and fight in combat, who are you to deny her from serving her country.

Although women aren’t allowed to fight in combat they are still found in the line of fire even though they are not officially designated as combat troops. This is to say that even though they are not fighting and just helping as medics and other things they can still be harmed. Women also train for the same thing as men and yet men are the one’s that are allowed to fight in combat. Women are highly trained war fighters and leaders. Women have fired lethal weapons, been hostages in war, lead men in battle, operated our most sophisticated systems, flew combat aircraft, and served

Women have accepted the challenges, responsibilities, and dangers of military services, just as men have. Not allowing females to fight in combat is like surviving medical school and being told you can’t become a doctor because you female. It no longer makes sense to not allow a women to fight in combat when she might be the one who saves a platoon. Major Eleanor Taylor, the first women to lead an infantry company in combat has this to say “My personal experience has been that the principles of leadership and team building apply equally to women as to men. As long as you protect qualification standards and give no impression that anyone is getting a free ride, integration, while not without bumps, will be less dramatic than people