There's a Republican effort in Congress to remove women from Forward Support Companies:
Because women are precious, rare treasures/baby factories that we can't possibly spare for our national defense.
Perhaps removing 22,000 women from Forward Support is part of the new, lighter and faster Army.
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(Anonymous)
2005-05-19 06:56 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen Select
I read somewhere (maybe on your blog, in which case I'm embarassed to just repost it) and the article you linked to kind of confirms it, that barring women from "combat positions" effectively means (at least in iraq) they end up doing the same jobs as the men, but get paid less. Heh... big f**king surprise there, huh?