Women in the US Army?
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If you enlist, you will get basic private pay and then promotions with more pay follow as you pursue your career. You get an increase after 4 months, and most people get at least one promotion on finishing their first specialty school. the web address for the 2006 pay charts is below.\n\nWomen are supposedly ineligible for combat positions. Mostly that is just not so.\n\nYour chances of going to Iraq are high - we are at war. By the time you are ready, though, and hopefully with a change of administration, your chances may very well be considerably less.\n\nUnder 18, you will need your parent's written permission.\n\nYes, it is definitely worth your time. Also consider the other services - USAF and USN [not the USMC - I did that - not a good idea at all]\n\nGo get 'em, Tiger !!
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Of course, no. The only reason women are alowd to participate is to appease feminists and because of technology. With technology, women are able to fight grown men from a distance. However, in close combat the woman is greatly disadvantaged.\n\nAlso, women have greater dangers than men. Men are killed and/or tortured. However, women tend to be preserved for sexual pleasure and torment.\n\nIn addition, women's emotions are too unstable. In war, one has to be all but a robot. One has to be stone-like. Women have too much compasion and pity, (which is an advantage for certain problems, but not for war). Pare these with a woman in her cycle and their could be confusion and chaos.\n\nPlus, women distract men. One weakness of even the toughest men, (in fact, more common in the more masculine men) is a tender eye for women. Men can see another man shot and keep moving. However, a women being shot will easilly distract a man. In war, men cannot have distractions. War is about survival, not politics and feminism. We need our men to do the job without hinderense or distraction.\n\nA woman's availability is to uncertain. With time, many men and women want to start a family. However, by God ordained nature, the woman's body is deticated to child bearing durring pregnancy and post pregnancy. The fate of a nation can not rely on an unreliable military.\n\nLastly, a nation that sends all her citizens to the battlefield has no one to defend the home. If both men and women are battling, who is protecting the children and homeland? Throughout history, men fought in the field, and women "held the fort down". Such a stradegy is safest, wisest, and most logical.
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Oh lord.\n\nHaving served with the 9th marines (grunts) as an F.O., I would say that knowing what I know about the female Marines, I would not want them clearing airfields and dirt trenches with me.\n\nThey did what they did, and many got pregnant quickly in and during the run up to operations.\n\nI dont think we should mix the sexes in a combat platoon.\n\nBad idea in combat, good idea for supporting roles.\n\noh..and i love it when people thumbs down the truth.  classy.
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I did some searching and found some sites that might be useful to you. \n\nhttp://www.nato.int/ims/2001/win/canada.htm\nhttp://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/3321/win10c.htm\nhttp://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com\n(On the third one, put in "Women in the military" in the search bar and a whole list will pop up). \nHope these help.
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for starters, pipsy, i don't mean to single your answer out, but unless your going through marine boot camp, it's a joke.  being in the army right now, they are slacking now more than ever.  relaxing the regs on height and weight for startes.  make basic easier.  as far as women being in combat mos's, they can't. it's against the regs.  the closest they can come to being in a combat mos is being a medic and earning the combat medic badge.  however, the war in iraq is not a tradional war.  women are being faced with the chance of being in a firefight everytime they leave the wire in iraq.  anyone there faces the possiblity of killing or being killed.  should the draft ever come around, it is out sheer necessity to get boots on ground to fight the enemy head on.  meaning to be infantry.  personally, i don't my life to depend on how a female reacts to her period.  if she's cramping, she won't notice the sniper in the tree that kills 6 or 10 people.  i don't want my life to depend whether or not jessica lynch lays down her rifle sits down and cries because she got lost.  if the draft were to be flawless and put the men on the front lines to protect and fight, and put the women in combat support, then great make them register.  but just as soon as they do you'll have jackies registering as jacks and chrissies registering as chris and so on.  and no one would be the wiser til they got in country.  fix the system and then we'll talk, but until then no.
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Women roles in World War 2 were very important. Most of them did not get out there and fight. When the men were gone the women did their jobs. Some of their jobs were like: working in factories, shipyards, building aircrafts, etc. They made a big influence in women history. Women also went through hard times. For example items ran low, and there family (men and some women) died during combat! So it was not all about the more freedom and rights they got. During the time of World War Two, many men left for the war, leaving jobs at home. Women promptly went to fill these jobs and others needed during wartime. The challenging part was that many women worked a night shift and still had the responsibility of maintaining the household and raising her children. For mothers with children not old enough to be in school, daycare was hard to find. Banks and grocery shops also made it hard for women to keep the household running. Although some working women had to quit their jobs maintain the household, women were a key part in winning World War 2. Then when the men came home from the Holocaust they wanted all of their jobs back. So the women had to give up their jobs and give them back to the men. Although the women really liked there jobs that they had done for the past months. Latter on they had the women rights and the women could do things that the men had done before. \n\nDuring World War 2 women played an important role overseas and in the homefront and it changed and improved women’s place in the Australian society of today. Before the war few women followed careers. Most jobs for women were traditional roles such as nursing, secretarial or caring jobs. \n\nSome women in World War 2 volunteered for the land army because all the men were away. So the Australian land army was set up to get girls to take the men’s places. They worked on farms at places like Mt Compass, Buckleboo and Gumeracha. They were looked after because they got free work clothes and food. \n\nIn the war women were cooks, stewardesses, transport drivers, signallers, coders, writers, cinematographer operators, visual signallers and there were girls working in classified sections. Others were trained as nurses and motor mechanics. The women go told they would never be permitted to go overseas but in 1941 the government announced that women would now be allowed to enrol in the armed forces. Only nurses would serve overseas and in battle zones. Some 300,000 women served in the army, navy and nursing corps, and a quarter of these served overseas. \n\nThe Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service was formed in 1941. They did not go overseas. They worked with communications. The Women’s Australian Auxiliary Air Force was also formed in 1941. They worked as radio communications and did mechanical repairs. Australian Women’s Army Service formed in 1941 if Australia was attacked they could fight but they could not replace the men fighting. The Australian Army Medical Women’s Service formed in 1942. They were nurses in Britain, Greece, North Africa, Malaya and Papua. \n\nWAAF in 1941 had 29 women and 300 men. The WAAF put signs at universities reading ‘if you are about to graduate, apply for a commission in the WAAF. Each person does a course from navigational and operations to accounts or equipment/ \n\nAt home during the war women made up 40 per cent of the work force in munitions factories. Women worked in aircraft and ship building industries also they worked in industries doing mechanical and maintenance work all the women received training. Women also became tram conductors, bus drivers, taxi drivers, security guards, mail delivers, bread carters and meter readers. Women were paid lower wages then men. Many women hoped that these jobs would still be open to them after the war had ended but they were not. \n\nWorld War 2 changed the lives of Australian women. Before the war women were housewives and mainly looked after the family and home. When the war starte
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www.anysoldier.com    You can send packages or letters. You can pick a female or male soldier. There are plenty of them on this website.\n\nThank you for supporting the troops!
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I think it is because there are still some jobs that women are not alowed to do in the army.  They can't be in a tank crew and they can't be in infrantry.  My husband was a tank driver and he said the reason they can't be in a tank crew is because the tank is so small and there is the chance of getting stuck in it.  He was also an Mp and work along side women.  When you are in the army it is not about the sex of the person, it is about if the sh*t hits the fan, will they cover you, and will you cover them.  I think alot of women don't join the army because they don't know much about it.  i would join, but i have two kids and I don't want to leave my husband responsible for them if I had to go to war.
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Acutally the military is better for many women than civilian life. The training and advancement oppertunities are the best they have ever been for females. There are restrictions on serving in Special Forces, Submarines, and most ground Combat units. But they are females on most ships, flying planes, and holding command ranks through out the world. How many Fortune 500 firms can say that???
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Absolutely.  Except, and here's the kicker....women are NOT held up to same standards as men.  Women scream equality and then refuse to play by the rules.  All Americans should be REQUIRED to serve in military OR do an equal amount of community service as a part of their citizenship.  As far as women in the military...what a joke.  Most (I SAY MOST>>>NOT ALL) do not meet the same standards as men.  They are not required to run as fast or with the same amount of weight in their rucks, they get special exceptions for being pregnant.  When my hubby was in army, all the girls did was have babies..they hardly ever worked and then got out as if they had fulfilled their contracts.  If a women had to cover a man in the field, could she run as fast, shoot as well and carry as much?  How many women in military today could pull a 200 lb. man up off the ground and carry him like most men could do to their female counterparts? Woman need to sign up and play by the rules as they are written. Oh, yeah, and I think women who are in military should have to sign a contract thatthey will not get pregnant while enlisted or risk losing their enlistment.  Career militray women should have to take a sabatical to get pregnant, like the rest of us do.  You can't defend a country and rely on a certain number of personnel when some of them get preggy just to avoid deployment!!! Oh, and by the way..I AM A FEMINIST!
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i actually tried to join the air force when i was 18.  this was in 1990 during desert storm.  i scored very high on the asvap test and the recruitor said i could have any job i wanted but every job that i suggested he denied because women weren't allowed to do those jobs (this was back before women had been in combat).  so i kept suggesting jobs, he kept saying no becuase i was a woman.  finally he said i should just play in the air force band.  i went off on him and told him where he could go, and at that time i realized that if i was telling off a recruiter, perhaps i didn't have what it took to join the military anyway lol
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Yes women get sent to Iraq. 58 female military have been killed there.\n\nIf you want to be a mechanic, why don't you join the air force and become an aircraft Mechanic and then work for an airline! You would be MUCH better paid!!
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Honestly, you are right.  The number of concessions and exceptions the military has had (and continues to have ) tomake just so females can serve is counterproductive and detrimental to the mission.  I am all for equal rights, but if you can not do the job, you should go elsewhere- the standards should not be lowered just so you make it.  The fact that female Marines I was in Iraq with (numbering 5) has an entire 30 man tent for themselves because they needed sperate billiting shows the preposterous nature of the system.  I have never met a female Marine (who are the toughest the US has got) who could perform physically as well or as long as a male Marine, or maybe more importantly, had the emotional or phychological strength to handle sometimes normal occurances.  Everyone in knows this and simply ignores or covers up for the discrepancies.  I applaud the females for their willingness to serve, but they do not and (except in rare cases) cannot equal a male in the same postion.\nGay men are a little different, though- the only problems I see logistically would be the same as females- seperate billiting and head faculities (baths/showers for you non DevilDOGs or squids) would be required, but they still could be expected to perform at the same levels physically as the other males.\n\noh, and sorry for the Jedi remarks- just kidding!`\n\nKsuccubis-  Being an able mechanic or a driver is not at all equal to the ability to endure physical and mental pain for weeks or months on end and still be counted on to complete the mission.  And PFT scores are essentially worthless in judging strength between individuals-  your ability to do pull-ups or sit -ups (your weight being the resistance) can not be measured to my ability using my weight.  and running is a great measure of endurance and cardiovascular strength, but the ability to do so with ruck and flak and kevlar under combat conditions is something all together different.  I am in no way trying to demean you or your service to the country, but emotional responses and personal investment are not the issues- combat effectiveness is.  I promise you no Male Marine could get away with the things the females do all the time- they use the full arsenal fo womanly guile to get out of the heavy lifting, barracks duty, deployments, etc- from PMS, to emotional issues, to sexual suggestiveness, with all the tears,pouting, preening, huffing and puffing that goes along with it.  It silly, wasteful and countertproductive, and has no place in the military as it should be.
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WWI\nThirty Thousand Women Were There\n\nIn 1901 and 1908 the establishment of the Army and Navy Nurse Corps opened the door for women in the military but ever so slightly. It wasn't until the United States got involved in World War One that some parts of the government got serious about using woman power.\nAs the Army stumbled around bureaucratic red tape trying to figure out how to enlist women the Navy simply ignored the War Department dissenters and quickly recruited women. Nearly 13,000 women enlisted in the Navy and the Marine Corps on the same status as men and wore a uniform blouse with insignia. The Navy's policy was extended to the Coast Guard, but personnel records from World War I contain scarcely any references to the Coast Guard Yeomanettes. A handful of them apparently were employed at the diminutive Coast Guard headquarters building in Washington. Nineteen-year-old twin sisters Genevieve and Lucille Baker transferred from the Naval Coastal Defense Reserve to become the first uniformed women in the Coast Guard. With the war's end the Coast Guard Yeomanettes, along with their Navy and Marine Corps counterparts, were mustered out of the service. \n\nThese were the first women in the U.S to be admitted to some military rank and status.\n\n\n....more...
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I had twin aunts in the WAC's in WWII. They said they always\njust had to beat the men at their own game.  They were \ntough, tough women. They did face a lot of negativity. One was actually an engine repair tech, and the other ran a mess hall. Both were overseas during the war. I was scared s***less of those two!!  They were kind of "poster women"\nfor the WAC's, being the first set of women twins in the \nservice.  I have a few pictures of them with Bob Hope in\na USO show.
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Uh yeah after being in the Orient, and watching Oriental women cook, clean and go in circles around their men while working a job while still being selfless in the support of their man and family, I'd have to say "yeah sdj, 45% of U.S. women forgot what being a woman was all about." And bud I'd say join the military, they'll send you to all sorts of cool foreign places where you can wife shop, learn the language before you get to where your going, that will help.
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That statement is not completely true. Women do participate in combat in this age. The threat is a 360 degree threat, there are no longer front lines. Women have been in numerous fire-fights, and have been attacked in convoys\n\nWomen are not allowed to be stationed in combat units Battalion and lower. That means infantry, tankers, field artillery, and combat engineers. People have various arguements for this, such as women be physically weaker, having a menstrual cycle, wanting to prevent rape if captured, and a distraction to the males in the unit.\n \nWho know if it will ever happen, but if it does I can tell you from experience it would completely change our military, and I'm not sure if it will be for better or worse.