Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers

No, that's the point you're missing. The DoD is NOT sending women over there because there are no men left. They're sending the women over because they happenned to be part of the Combat Service units that are called up. Women are ALLOWED in the Combat Service units. They are NOT ALLOWED in the Combat Arms units. Those Cbt Svc echelons are flushed out with women because that's what they were in peacetime. The DoD is not in the habbit of dismissing entire units from duty just because they have women in them.