BehindBlueI's
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- Oct 3, 2012
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When the US military was discussing allowing females in combat roles such as infantry, I was against it. I'm still pretty much against it if its done in integrated units, as I saw the drama that male/female units had that all male units did not. (My MOS was all male, my ex-wife's was integrated).
The Kurds apparently have not had that debate:
The Kurdish women fighting ISIS - CNN.com
Viyan Peyman, Female Kurdish Fighter Who Battled ISIS, Is Killed - NBC News
Check this one out where they are using a quad-copter to recon:
Kurdish women fighters wage war on Islamic State in Iraq [Photo report]
I had assumed this was a recent development, perhaps simply a response to depleted population during the war with Saddam's Iraq and now ISIS, but apparently this has a long tradition with the Kurds:
Western fascination with 'badass' Kurdish women - Al Jazeera English
Interesting stuff. Some Middle Eastern countries won't allow a woman to drive, others will let her go to war at 16.
The Kurds apparently have not had that debate:
The Kurdish women fighting ISIS - CNN.com
Viyan Peyman, Female Kurdish Fighter Who Battled ISIS, Is Killed - NBC News
Check this one out where they are using a quad-copter to recon:
Kurdish women fighters wage war on Islamic State in Iraq [Photo report]
I had assumed this was a recent development, perhaps simply a response to depleted population during the war with Saddam's Iraq and now ISIS, but apparently this has a long tradition with the Kurds:
Western fascination with 'badass' Kurdish women - Al Jazeera English
Interesting stuff. Some Middle Eastern countries won't allow a woman to drive, others will let her go to war at 16.