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Ok,
Let me try once more.
The DoD is now scrambling to send every qualified clerk, cook, driver, mechanic, heavy lifter, Military Police over to Iraq. These are soldiers who can carried a rifle (or at least should, Jessica Lynch is a poor example and not a unique one of units who couldn't) and are qualified to engage the enemy in combat. Some of these qualified people are women who has seen and will continue to see combat as part of their tour.
There are no qualified infanteer, tank driver, actual combat arms personnel who are also women because by law, women are forbidden from these branches.
The missions assigned to these two different branches are different and while the combat service people (cooks, drivers, MPs, lifters, etc) will most likely see combat, it would not be on the same scale nor intent of the combat arms people.
I will give up after this one if you still don't see the difference and accept the fact that to you a soldier is a soldier is a soldier is a soldier. To us, there is a vast world of difference, and one apparently, you cannot understand.
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Chimo
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