Trust us to decide our role in the Army, female servicemembers in Iraq say

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=29322

FORWARD OPERATING BASE MAREZ, Iraq — If Pvt. Roxana Figueroa had her way, the Army would open up all jobs — from infantry on up — to women, and leave it up to women to decide where they want to serve.

“If women want to, and can make it, I think they should be able to serve in combat,” said the 20-year-old, deployed to Iraq with the 94th Engineer Battalion based in Vilseck, Germany.

At a minimum, women should be able to serve in combat support units, and she opposes a congressional proposal that would ban women from such roles.

“I think it’s wrong,” she said. “It’s taken us a long time to come this far, to even have engineering jobs in the Army, and now they might take that away from us.”

[Gloria]

1. Sweetie, you won't be allowed to decide what to do with your own

body soon, so get used to it....

[Erika]

3. Yeah, the GOP men will decide what

value and jobs they will "allow" women to hold. They took lessons from the Taliban. But, yes, if women chose to strike for one day, our military operations would be shut down, so maybe some rethinking should be done.

[ugarte]

2. If all the servicewomen went on a one-day sickout

people might suddenly appreciate them.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. too bad miliatry personnel cannot strike

as this woudl be mutiny and in a combat zone punishable by death.

This is what you folks miss

Now Private, I am all with you... and trust me will fight for your right to go to teh front lines if need be, and you can hack it.

[FlemingsGhost]

5. Bwaaaaaahahahahahahahaaaaaa ...

ahhhhhhh ... Ohhhhhh, hmmmmmmffff, er, .... sorry. Hmmmmmm ... Nope ... I'm gonna need another minute! ....



Bwaaaaaahahahahahahahaaaaaa ... :rofl: