Why Should Women Be Allowed In Combat

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Call me old fashioned if you want, but I don’t think women should be allowed in combat. It’s not that I don’t believe they can do it, it just that, first of all, I think it would be too great a conflict for the men to have women around in high-stress situations such as war. In this culture, we raise our boys to be chivalrous to women and defend them, so in war, I would think that there would be a distraction for the men to fight the enemy or to protect the women. I also think that there are better positions for women to hold during combat times rather than on the front lines. For example, women are by nature better care-givers. They could play a support role such as running the mess hall or organizing paperwork back at headquarters. And,

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