What function do women serve in the U.S. military, if they are not allowed to serve in combat missions?

Question

I am doing a project for school and I wanted to know the views and opinions...and of course any facts that can be presented as to:

What women are allowed to do in the military.

Why they can or cannot do some things.

And how that makes people feel.

Thank you,

Michelle

Answer 1

run the deathh squads in jails  

Answer 2

In the U.S. Army,

Females may not branch Infantry, Armor, and Special Forces. They are limited in Air Defense Artillery, Field Artillery, Aviation, and Engineers.

*Aviation: all aircraft (Apache, Black Hawk, Chinook, and Kiowa) are completely open to female aviators. They are only restricted from flying for the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Special Ops Pilots who fly Special Forces, Rangers, SEALs, etc. around).

*Engineers: limited in combat engineers but completely open to construction, topographic, bridge, and dive. They are able to attend Sapper School (extremely tough training school somewhat similar to Ranger School). Any female with a Sapper Tab is a bad m**o.

The other Army branches are completely open to females: Chemical, Military Police, Military Intelligence, Civil Affairs, Psychological Operations, JAG, Signal, AG, Finance, Ordnance, Transportation, Quartermaster, Medical Corps, and Medical Service Corps.

Misc. notes:

*Females and males have a different physical fitness test scale.

*Females may not attend Ranger School.

I lived with a female aviator in Flight School. She was a fitness stud and was one of the top aviators in her class. I believe the current restrictions for females in the various Army branches are good the way they are set. The female aviator I lived with did state that the physical fitness test scale for females is too easy and should be increased.

-Army Pilot

Answer 3

The above answer is excellent.

To add a little to it, women CAN serve in "combat missions" and do everyday over in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read about the female MP that was awarded the silver star. That should help you for your report as well.

Women simply cannot serve in combat arms jobs, these are jobs whose entire existance is to close with and destroy the enemy. Because of today's unconventional warfare, women are finding themselves engaging the enemy moreso than ever. The role of the female in the US military is changing, and though it is unlikely to see jobs such as infantry or armor opened up to them anytime soon .. they are serving honorably in combat today.

Answer 4

Women are not allowed into combat for many reasons, an example is below, while they are being shot at and blown up, so weren't many in WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Korea, etc....it is the nature of the beast that a mortar, artillery, sniper, IED, etc..will get someone who it is not intended for. As for some info for your report-

From the report of the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces dated November 15, 1992, it states in part:

The average female Army recruit is 4.8 inches shorter, 31.7 pounds lighter, has 37.4 fewer pounds of muscle, and 5.7 more pounds of fat than the average male recruit. She has only 55 percent of the upper-body strength and 72 percent of the lower-body strength.

An Army study done in 1988 found that women are more than twice as likely to suffer leg injuries and nearly five times as likely to suffer fractures as men.

Further, the Commission heard an abundance of expert testimony including:

- women's aerobic capacity is significantly lower, meaning they cannot carry as much as far as fast as men, and they are more susceptible to fatigue.

- in terms of physical capability, the upper five percent of women are at the level of the male median. The average 20-to-30 year-old woman has the same aerobic capacity as a 50 year-old man.

After a study was conducted at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, one expert testified that:

- using the standard Army Physical Fitness Test, the upper quintile (top 20%) of women at West point achieved scores on the test equivalent to the bottom quintile (bottom 20%) of men.

- only 21 women out of the initial 623 (3.4%) achieved a score equal to the male mean score of 260.

- on the push-up test, only 7% of women can meet a score of 60, while 78% of men exceed it.

- adopting a male standard of fitness at West Point would mean 70% of the women he studied would be separated as failures at the end of their junior year, only 3% would be eligible for the Recondo badge, and not one would receive the Army Physical Fitness badge.

In short, Women are in the Military Jobs they are in out of politics, not need, not due to merit but politics and quotas. A women can be just as brave as a man but that does me no good when she is hurt more easily, or I have to carry her load because it is to heavy or even worse, she is to weak to drag me back to the Hummer or Helo.

Edit-the woman MP who got the Silver Star should have gotten a Bronze with V not a Silver Star, the Woman Medic is the only female I have seen that deserved the Silver Star. Again, the MP got it for politics, sorry, saw it all the time.