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Women Marines want a chance outside the Afghan wire
By Golnar Motevalli Reuters
BARCHA, Afghanistan (Reuters) – U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Tiffany Jones chews tobacco, spitting the juice into the Afghan desert as she talks, and wears her M-16 automatic rifle slung across her chest just like her male colleagues.
Jones wanted to be a sniper but, like many women on active service in the U.S. military, she has never been outside "the wire" — the heavily guarded razor-wire perimeter of her base.
"I don’t think the American public on a whole is ready to hear about females in the military getting blown up and their body parts everywhere," Jones said.
Still, Jones said she would like to see more women in combat.
In the U.S. Marines, women cannot fight with units engaged in direct combat with the enemy. While they do get some infantry training, they cannot join infantrymen on the front line.
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Posted by Bob Higgins on Oct 26 2009, With 0 Reads, Filed under Military. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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“Kool-Aid, Kool-aid, tastes great….”
I believe that we should have a draft that includes women in combat roles.
Equal Rights = Equal Responsibility.
And a public posting of all who get deferrals and why.
Let’s see how committed our country is to global imperialism.