• halfwaythere@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Can you shoot? Can you move? Can you communicate?

    Then who the fuck cares who you prefer to be involved with!? Especially when a lot of soldiers/officers seem to like to be with other people’s wives/husbands!

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      This is the same reason why women should be allowed the same combat positions as men. They still aren’t and it’s stupid.

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            6 months ago

            “Well over a decade” ago is very different than today.

            In 2013, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta removed the military’s ban on women serving in combat, overturning the 1994 rule. Panetta’s decision gave the military services until January 2016 to seek special exceptions if they believed any positions must remain closed to women. The services had until May 2013 to draw up a plan for opening all units to women and until the end of 2015 to actually implement it.

            In December 2015, Defense Secretary Ash Carter stated that starting in 2016 all combat jobs would open to women.

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            6 months ago

            You’re giving squids a bad name. Surely you understood the question refers to present, not the past, right?

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      6 months ago

      I would argue that half the army recruits can only do two out of the three of those, and half them only one at a time.