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In reply to the discussion: On the Reality of Combat [View all]4Q2u2
(1,406 posts)If your in the designated theater of operations you get the hazard pay and danger pay. No matter your job or sex. Promotions for the majority of the services is not predicated on combat arms but the number of deployments, and grading out against your peer group. Most of the infantry positions have the highest grade out numbers for promotion. So it is equal to all who just go over in any job capacity. As for decorations that is a very touchy subject to a lot of people who serve. The people who truly deserve those awards do not receive them, secondly anyone in it as a ribbon hunt is an asshole will get you killed no matter what the sex is. Those people suck. I am torn personally by this, after just recently retiring after 22yrs it will not affect me, but the service I love will be. What way I am not sure. I served with a lot of very good and honorable females. If they make the same cut then they made the cut, what I fear is that someone will not like the numbers and then lower the standard and that will degrade combat readiness.