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Santos drove to a more protected position, while Brown bandaged Smith and Spray, gave them IVs and readied them for the helicopters that arrived 45 minutes later. Brown "never looked around or anything," Robbins said. "She was focused on the patients the whole time. She did her job perfectly."
Should the policy of preventing women taking direct combat jobs in the military keep going or is it time for that one to die?
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Azakias who doth quote:
Its all politics. And its not really the military that has a problem with sending women to the front lines. Its the people back home who throw the fit.
That certainly seems to be the case with this story at the very least.
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And secondly, while people might grudgingly accept their sons coming home in a body bag as one of the costs of freedom, they tend to draw the line at it being Daddy's Little Girl(tm) in the bag.
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Vorbis postedIt'll take a long, long time before people deny their senses enough to say that men and women are equal in every regard.
Last I checked, men can't have babies.
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Alidane had this to say about Cuba:
Last I checked, men can't have babies.
And women can't lead countries.
just physiology.
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