Should Women Be Allowed In Military Combat
In this report, I will present the information I've discovered concerning whetherallowing women to serve in combat units will reduce a units effectiveness. Women in today's military serve in more jobs and constitute the largest percent of women in the military then ever before. Four years ago women only made up 12 percent of the military, this has climbed from 1.6 percent in 1973 (Armed Forces and Society, 1996, p. 17). They also hold more jobs than ever before. In 1991, congress passed an amendment which allowed women to fly fixed wing and rotary wing combat aircraft in the military (Harvard International Review, 1992, 52). The military has also opened more combat support jobs in an effort to get more women to join the military. Virtually every job is open to women in the military; infantry, submarines, and artillery are the only ones that are still off limits (Congressional Quarterly Weekly, 1996, p. 368). First, let me explain the distinction between combat support units and direct combat units. The military changed its definition of direct combat for women. This opened up more jobs for women that had been off-limits (Congressional Quarterly Researcher,
with stress (Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy, 1991, p. 222). As a POW she dealt Public Law and Policy, 1991, p. 215). situations (Congressional Quarterly Weekly, 1992, p. 842). More research has to be condition. Women as a whole according to Pentagons studies have half the physical men and women can interact without a decrease in unit cohesion. More importantly this
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