Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hp-pcd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!hp-dcd!jack From: jack@hp-dcd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: equal willy-nillyness - (nf) Message-ID: <1408@hp-pcd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 03:14:40 EDT Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.1408 Posted: Mon Jul 25 03:14:40 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Jul-83 07:27:24 EDT Sender: netnews@hp-pcd.UUCP Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Corvallis OR Lines: 15 #N:hp-dcd:22900003:000:573 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)