Women s Armed Services Integration Act - 1159 Words

Women now make up 14 percent of the active-duty military in the United States, which is up from 1.6 percent, 25 years prior. (Christian Science Monitor, 1). In 1948, President Truman signed the Women s Armed Services Integration Act which created the role of women in the military. This law meant that each branch of the service was allowed to have one female Colonel (Byfield, 12). As of 2015, there are many women who serve as Generals and Admirals. All of these roles are non-combative. Even though some women can do anything a man can do, the vast majority can not, therefore making it an unsafe idea to place these women into combat positions. Women hold many diverse positions in the armed forces. The vast majority of women work in areas†¦show more content†¦In terms of modern-day combat, women do not have an equal opportunity to survive.(Messay, 3) Some argue that it is a women s right to be in combat, but anyone will agree that equal opportunity does not play part in combat. Feminists and their supporters want to gender-neutralize the military be incrementally ditching common sense policies. This latest study, which claims that women can be trained to be like men, contributes to this misguided ideology, weakens the force structure at its core, and puts America s military personnel in peril. continues Lt. Col. Maginnis. (Messay, 3) When we try to force and shove women into dangerous situations, we are ignoring their rights instead of protecting them. The dropout rate for women is higher than for men. Leading the dropout rates are white women with an average rate of 43%, followed by black women at 33% and Hispa nic women with 31% (Park). This can be directly pointed to the physical demands that a women faced in basic training. The possibility of women becoming prisoners of war is more likely to happen. One case in which this happened is of Melissa Rathbun-Nealy, a military trained truck driver. During the Gulf War, she was stationed in Dhahran. The Iraqis captured her and held her for 33 days before she