Should gender be a consideration for guard duty?

No it is not wrong. If there becomes an issue, you punish that Soldier who is responsible for the problem. You must instill a culture where women and men are viewed as equals, and where harassment of any kind is unprofessional and unacceptable. That is not a male and a female on guard, that is two Soldiers on guard, and they need to see it as such. That distinction starts with the leadership.

Just my opinion.

No. As a leader is our responsibility that all soldiers are training, qualified and prepare for any duty regardless what they are. I was in an Aviation unit in which female soldier were assigned and work along male soldier performing the same duties. Throughout my military career a made a point to not identified soldiers by gender. I had soldiers assigned to me. When I was given a mission to provide an amount of soldiers for a tasking, I ran through the roster and all I saw was names. I was deployed to Kosovo during the earliest stages of the deployment, because my task force had the most of soldiers assigned, I was task to provide a guard force for the American Sector Ammunition Holding Area (AHA). It was a 24-hour tasking/operation. As the Task force CSM, I made the point that nobody was exempt from the guard duty. My assigned female soldiers performed their duties as part of the guard force exemplary. They received kudos from unit’s chain of command and from other unit’s commanders/Senior NCOs. As a previous Squadron and Brigade CSM, I made sure all soldiers were trained to standards and check/follow up to make sure they were. We the leaders should not label a soldier as “female soldier” or “male soldier”, in doing so, what we are doing is segregating them and setting them apart. Many “female” soldier wants to be treated as part of the team and when treated as such, they made things happened. I had some great female soldiers that are currently First Sergeant or Command Sergeant majors. With all the changes going through our society, today’s leaders must come to term on how to treat and handle soldiers. Leaders must trust and give soldiers regardless their gender the opportunity to excel and perform to the best of their abilities. I believe that the leader that trains his/her soldier to standards, know their potential and trust them, would not have any problem assigning them to any type of duty/guard duty. There is no problem having one male and one female during guard duty. Just do not make it the norm, use the duty roster and you would have the dilemma or situation in which the same female is constantly doing guard duty. I do not see any problem having two females doing the same duty. Regardless of the gender, make sure they are train to standards, if so, they will succeed and be a great access to your team, unit and specially the United States Army.

If they are going to be Infantry yes all duties should be performed the same no mater what sex.

No.

Since there is no concern about whether or not the female Soldier can perform the duty(they've been pulling guard for years), the concern is apparently whether the mixed pair can resist temptation. So let us not provide the temptation. Makes about as much sense as prohibiting the construction of highways because they provide the opportunity for reckless driving.

I posted this in response to another similar question"Why equality in military uniform is a bad idea:" America is bastion for democracy and progress only because your military secured those freedoms for you. It is a luxury possible because while we want peace, we are also ready to kick ass and rain down on the enemies of freedom with a swift and mighty hand of righteous American doom to secure it. As soldiers, we surrender certain civil rights in order that we might better accomplish our mission of protecting you. We knew it when we enlisted, and we signed up anyway. When you attempt to impose the same guidelines as civs on GI's you fail to take that into account and undermine our effectiveness. Let the military figure it out. They will , I assure you. But, in an organic process that takes into account the simple fact that many civs seem to have forgotten.
We are still at war.
But, the Army says otherwise , so adapt. i would buttonhole one of your females and ask her in a non-sexually harassing manner, what would work best for her and her battles then go about doing what I was going to do anyway.
But you knew all this already, didn't you, Smoke?
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I am a retired MP...gender never came into the equation. I was trained as a soldier, and that we all wore green and bled red. I was also an "older" soldier (34 when I enlisted and a mother of 5) I never had any duty that was female only. Guard duty, CQ, etc. didn't matter and was never even brought up and this was 20 years ago. I am really surprised that this is still an issue. I believe that your females should already be aware of what the standards are and just follow orders and make it happen. I hope this helps!

There should not be any question about guard duty. That has been and always will be duty for every member of the armed service, both male and female.

I don't think it's wrong but gender is still a consideration. Know your troops and know what your asking them to do. Is it a better decision to put females together probably it eliminates a possible issue from happening.

If you are worry, have the SOG perform period checks and that's within the scope of his duties. To check on the soldiers on guard duty.