Military Women Should NOT Be Allowed in Combat Positions

In today's society, with affirmative action full out in most industries

and businesses, and the equal rights movement having made great progress;

there is finally a snag in the nylons of woman activists. The question of

whether women should have to serve in combat is upon us. The answer is no.

If you have kept up with the news in recent years, women have been

fighting their way into the top military academies, the Citadel being the most

recent case. These woman have claimed being just as tough as men, which is

scientifically incorrect, but hey it's a defense. They have, through grueling

court battles, made their way into the elite schools of our great military,

where our best men have been serving us for generations. While claiming to be

every bit as good as the men, they have for a most part failed once they got in.

Ms. Faulkner won her legal battle to enter the Citadel, breaking a 152 year

tradition of training men only. On August 14, 1995, during her first day of

military training, she collapsed from heat exhaustion. Within days, she abruptly

withdrew from the college, forced to admit that she could not withstand the

rigors of "hell week." Ms. Faulkner, fighting back tears, explained that two

and a half years of stress had "all crashed in" on her in the first days there.

After not quite making the cut, and surviving the stress and trials of these

places, they say that it is because the men were too hard on them. "Too hard"

is not a valid sentence in the military, you are either tough enough or you

fail.

I am not a sexist, don't get me wrong. I know many woman who are my

intellectual superiors whom I admire. I have even met a few that I probably

would not want to mess with. What I am trying to show is that while in some

cases they can function in combat; they are, for the most part, detrimental

to military efficiency.

Chairman of the Department of Military Science at the University of

Michigan, who conducted a test of Army officer candidates, and found that: The

top 20 percent of women at West Point achieved scores on the Army Physical