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SubscribeWomen shouldn't be sent into combat
PAULA BRONSTEIN / GETTY IMAGES
Pentagon Chief Leon Panetta has removed the ban on women serving combat roles. Sgt. Sheena Adams, 25, U.S. Marine with the Female Engagement Team blows bubbles with Afghan boys surrounding her while on patrol in 2010 in Musa Qala, Afghanistan.
Parker provides good justification
In her column on Jan. 28, Kathleen Parker explained, much more cogently than I could have, her reasons why sending women into combat is a bad idea [“Don’t send women into combat,” Opinion].
I couldn’t agree more that it makes no sense when women have half the upper-body strength of men. Plus the fact that women could well face rape if they should be captured.
--Emily Bone, Renton
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