Battling the Storm Within

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Veterans: Women Are Already In Combat, So Stop Saying They Shouldn't Be In Combat Units




Heather Mac Donald, of the conservative Manhattan Institute think tank, wrote that putting male and female service members together for long periods of time, "Guarantees sexual liaisons, rivalries and breakups, all of which undermine the bonding essential to a unified fighting force."

She cites an unnamed Marine commander, who said that during his unit's Afghanistan deployment, things went downhill when a female team assigned with interacting with local women arrived at their forward operating base.

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