I considered myself an asset not a liability when I served. Drafted does not always mean front lines.
There are many reason a person might not be fit for drafting into combat or support services. If women are drafted, they will be put where they can do the most good.
And dont get me wrong, I am not disparaging the women who choose to serve...no doubt you were an asset....that was your choice, much different than grabbing the avg teen girl and saying you're a soldier now. Once you start drafting women there will be no way to keep them out of frontline units......
With a draft, they would still have to pass the physicals and basic training, and it necessary tech school.
Women that don't meet the requirements can be rejected.
Please...do you know what the failure rate would be....you dont have time for games like that,,,monetary waste would sap money from alrdy stretched defense budget
Men drafted had to go through the process. Drafting did not automatically mean accepted or combat.
Any guy kept could be used in combat.........cant wait for the howling of lib parents as their daughter goes off to war courtesy of feminists...who only want whats best for them ya know
Women live through war in every conflict zone. Women take up arms to defend their family and homes.
In syria and iraq, it is not feminism, but a matter of life and death. In Israel it is matter protecting their country and people.
Women die in war all the time, why should they not do so with a gun?
How many women have bee captured, raped, enslaved or killed in this century so far? Why deny them a right to save their own lives and those of their neighbors, families and friends?
You would rather they be raped, beheaded or abused that go down fighting?
Women have fought in the revolutionary war, the civil war and have served in some form with every war we have fought. A uniform and gun only makes it official, but women will still be fighting in some way and serving the armed forces and the country.
Why not pay them for their service in combat zones?
Why should other countries put women in combat but not the US? Is our country less worthy or are women less valued for what they can do? Iran and Libya have women fighters, even Saudi has a woman fighter pilot, ironically she can't drive, but she can fight.
Not letting them fight or not drafting them to service in or out of combat is be littling their ability and value. You are afraid of women dying? Women die in war whether they are fighting or not.
If women can be policemen or special forces in the military, why should they not be drafted?
If women can be fighter pilots, chopper pilots, and server in tank units, why should they not be drafted?
Are women so much less than men?