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From: jack@hp-dcd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: equal willy-nillyness - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 03:14:40 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 25 03:14:40 1983
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hp-dcd!jack    Jul 23 15:30:00 1983

        'SOME women, sure; but if we insert women willy-nilly into our
        combat forces out of some compulsion to achieve "equal treatment",
	a disaster could result. Real combat is nothing like tv.'

We've certainly inserted men willy-nilly into our combat forces!  I know  that
I'm  no fighter, but they'd put a rifle in *my* hands if the war came. I agree
the military should only put appropriate people in the  service,  but  it's  a
gender-independent thing.

				-Jack "my foot'd be the first to go" Applin IV
				(ucbvax!decvax!cca!sri-unix!hplabs!hp-dcd!jack)