'Women in combat' is an idea whose time will [u]never[/u] come.
If I am not mistaken, the two women servicemen captured in the Gulf War were both raped by their captors. Maj. Rhonda Cornum, in her 1992 book, entitled 'She Went To War', downplays the incident by calling it 'molestation' and saying that only one Iraqi actually molested her! The other soldier was an Army sargeant captured, while having sex with another NCO on a pipe line road, when an Iraqi patrol came upon them.
Both she and the other NCO were forced to resign after the Gulf War was over (seems they were both married, just not to each other).
This alone should put an end to trying to justify 'women in combat' on some vague BS about lack of career opportunities.
I remember reading about an outtake from a video that was shot at some base in Saudi Arabia during Desert Gulf War. The news guy was busy interviewing all of the servicemen when he happened upon this ditzy female:
'What is your assignment here?' he asked.
'I'm the camp whore!', she replied with a grin.
Needless to say that clip didn't make the evening news.
Eric The(WarIsBadEnoughWithMenOnly)Hun[>]:)]