Arguments Against Women In Combat

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Women in Combat Bang! That’s the sound of a bullet going through the leg of an American soldier. A female soldier then valiantly goes out and gets the soldier who has just been shot. The female soldier carrying the wounded soldier back to safety starts stumbling and then falls. The wounded soldier is too heavy for the female soldier. The female soldier tries for about a minute to pick him back up, but can’t. The female soldier then applies a tourniquet on the soldier, to stop the bleeding, and then seeks out help. By the time the help arrives the wounded soldier has been shot in the head. What if the female soldier could’ve carried the wounded soldier out to safety? Would the wounded soldier and she both be alive today? This is what many…show more content…
I grew up with my dad being away to war most of my childhood. From personal experience, I have seen and heard the things my dad has been put through to be out in the field. As a women myself and very for women’s rights, it is surprising I would argue against women having equality. The things my dad has done and seen are not for a women. My dad has seen children die, men die, women die, lost his hearing from an explosion, and seen his best friends and fellow soldiers die right in front of his face. My dad has even killed multiple people. Women have a maternal instinct. A maternal instinct is not something a few women have, every woman has it. Since women have a maternal instinct, the impact of seeing people, including young children die, can be very damaging and emotional. Yes death is an emotional thing for everyone but to a mother, or future mother, the impact is incredibly different. The impact is different for a women because even if the women has a child or not, she can imagine the death of her own…show more content…
"Combat Roles for Women: A Modest Proposal." Parameters: U.S. Army War College. 2nd ed. Vol. 31. Web. An unbiased article is important to have. An unbiased article gives facts and the black and whites of things. That is this article. It’s not a bombardment of one side, it features both. McGirk, Tim. "Crossing The Lines." Time. 9th ed. Vol. 167. Web. This article states it’s been proven that females are more mature with the decisions they would make in a combat zone but ounce under fire, or in combat, females are more likely to panic. They illustrate this by giving a real life experience with this issue. It also gives the statistics of women dying since we’ve slowly been accepting women in small parts of combat roles. I don’t know if those statistics can be accurately used since some of the dead come from rapid deployment units, which go to combat all the time and they’re probably not dying at a high rate in those units. Works Cited McGirk, Tim. "Crossing The Lines." Time. 9th ed. Vol. 167.

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