In article ,
 "Heidi Graw"  wrote:

> > wrote in message
> >news:1106126517.670108.293870{at}f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> (snip)
>
> > 3. With an all volunteer army, recruitment will always dependend on
> > convincing young men that combat arms is the place for them. If they
> > are not convinced that their female colleagues are there because they
> > can carry a 200 lb. wounded man as well as a guy they will not enlist.
>
> It's a valid concern.  I know Captain Wojack focused on integrating women
> into men's combat units.  Yet, I'm suggesting something else:  all women's
> units.  In this way, women being on average lighter than men, they can carry
> out injured *women* rather than men.  But even then we have to bear in mind
> if a woman combatant is injured, that man will have a lighter load to carry
> if she is in an integrated unit.
>
> > They will see thru the hollow game being played.
>
> I think men will still volunteer for military duty if and when they truly
> believe it is for a worthy and just cause.  The fiasco in Iraq is creating
> doubt and that does not have a heck of a lot to do with women being there.

One reason is that the "fiasco" is largely a creation of anti-american
sentiments.  I've debated this issue on the washingtonpost forum and
actually caught leftists from Europe and the US snickering in
a ghoulish fashion over the war dead simply as a way to get at
Bush.

Pardon me for asking, but what is so bad about getting rid of
Saddam Hussein and having democratic elections?  How is Osama Bin Laden
increasing his credibility by opposing democracy?

I'm reminded of all the criticism Reagan encountered during
the cold war for possibly starting a war with the USSR and
after it collapsed, everyone crawled out of the woodwork and
said "I knew that was going to happen."  It would have been
neat if they knew it a few months earlier... :-)

> >What happens when the
> > military has no volunteers is anybodies guess.
>
> There will always be those willing to sign up for military duty if the
> propaganda from "upstairs" is convincing enough.
>
> Heidi

I skimmed his report and agree with him that a women's only unit
could have incredible psychological effect (as seen by the recent
prison photos.)

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