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Women Joining the Army
ATTENTION! Why shouldn’t women be allowed to join the army? Does gender matter? Ask yourself these questions when you think about it. Why does it matter? In America only 214,000 women serve in the armed forces and they only make up “15 percent of active-duty military personnel, working as medics, intelligence officers, and police, and in other non-combat roles.” According to the article, no women have served in actual combat roles. Which is completely absurd. Anyone should be able to fight in combat if they wish, no matter what ethnicity, gender, or race. The physical traits would still have to remain the same however so that it is still equal to join the army.
Joining the army is a tough task, reserved for the best in physical shape, mentally capable and strong willed. There are lots of women that have made a difference in the war such as the women that became medics and helped out wounded soldiers. You can’t forget the Margaret Corbin named “Molly Pitcher” for when she took her husband's place working the cannon against hessian troops until she was too injured to fire the cannon. There are many other women that did very well in the army as well such as the three women, Shaye Haver, Kristen Griest and Lisa Jaster, who …show more content…

In this essay, the author

  • Argues that women shouldn't be allowed to join the army, since they only make up 15 percent of active-duty military personnel, and no women have served in actual combat roles.
  • Opines that joining the army is a tough task reserved for the best in physical shape, mentally capable and strong willed. there are lots of women that have made an impact in the war such as margaret corbin named "molly pitcher."
  • Opines that if women can graduate from such a prestigious and tough school, why can’t they serve in combat?
  • Argues that america is supposed to be a free and equal country. if we don't allow our citizens to defend their country to their best ability, how can we call ourselves equal or free?

It doesn’t matter if they’re a women or not, on the inside we are all the same. We all eat, sleep and care for our country. All they are trying to do is help protect the country they love the most, America. If we are denying their request to even voluntarily defend their own country, America doesn’t even seem like a free country anymore. Think about all the things that women have achieved over the years such as the following: They gained the right to vote, Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic Ocean, and there was a woman elected by Ronald Reagan himself to serve on the Supreme Court, and now we also have a woman running for

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