Your Opinion: New Army Report: 8% of Army Women Want Combat Jobs

AP Report (2/25/2014): Few Army women want combat jobs<div><br></div><div>In a sampling of 170,000 Army women, less than 8% said they wanted combat jobs. Of those, 30% wanted to be a Night Stalker in the&nbsp;160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment - a specialized unit used to fly Special Forces very fast and very low under cover of darkness. Seventeen women already work in the unit in administrative, intelligence and logistics posts.&nbsp;Hundreds of additional pilot and crew positions were formally opened in this unit to service women in 6/2013.</div><div><div><br></div><div>The second most popular choice was infantry, followed closely by combat engineers. Far fewer said they wanted to be in the field artillery, where unit members move and work with massive rocket and cannon systems. And the least popular branch of the Army they named was armor — jobs that involve working in the hulking tanks and armored vehicles.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps most reassuring to everyone involved:&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>(1) “The men don’t want to lower the standards because they see that as a perceived risk to their team”&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>(2) “The women don’t want to lower the standards because they want the men to know they’re just as able as they are to do the same task.”<br></div><div><br></div><div>Warmest Regards, Sandy ( http://www.linkedin.com/in/armynurse )</div><div><br></div><div>Sources:&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>http://www.armytimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID= [login to see] 011</div><div><br></div><div>http://www.army.mil/article/18853/army-honors-its-first-female-helicopter-pilot/<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>