Women in combat, can we stop with the BS and just make it happen?

Women have been serving (and leading) in combat for far longer than there has been a United States. Not nearly as many as men, but they've been there. Women served in combat during the American Revolution - so they have been there since the start of the US (albeit in disguise for many years).

They have been captured, interrogated, and sexually abused - as have men. There were women POWs in WWII and women died in Vietnam (and I assume in Korea as well). Women performed vital roles in WWII as WASPs, although this has only recently been recognized as "military" service.

I have never had a problem with women in any career field as long as they can do the job and that includes men. I was in 2 combat squadrons and they changed it from combat to combat support so that they could fill some of the slots with women. Our first female not only proved she could do the job and there was no difference in a man or a woman doing the job. On a our plane a EC -130E, ABCCC pronounced A B TRIPLE C, there was no latrine for men and one women. The capsule only had one, there was a urinal and a plastic bag in a hole. The plastic bag was sealed so that you would know if it had been used. The rule was if you broke the seal you carried the bag off the plane. Sometimes the plastic bag would break and if that happened you cleaned up the mess. So our female learned to use the urinal. So she would not have to take the bag off if 15 men used it. There are some career fields that will just have to be tested to see if women can do it. Men test and fail , so will women. There are some career fields that our Society just don't want a female in it, they just don't want a woman if caught interrogated. I'll leave it at that.