Women Can Now Join U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division

Nope. You were imagining them being there. The reporter knows more than you.....

Micheal Bay or Jerry Bruckheimer will make another bad movie where the women blow everything in sight away with their M4's and bad attitudes. Just when you are ready to throw in the towel, for a bad depiction of them and their capabilities, there will be a "make me a sammich" reference by the resident bad ass Alpha Male just to take the accomplishment away form them.

That was my thoughts. No female in pilots when I was in, but there were certainly female medics, AG, supply etc. I assume that they mean that they can now serve in one of the Infantry squads.

Well, when I was a grunt in the A-Sau Mountains in Vietnam, we got the Stars and Stripes Newspaper, with the headline being, "PRESIDENT NIXON DECLARES NO COMBAT TROOPS NORTH OF DA NANG" ....................... same thing.

You're taking the literal and correct assessment. I don't think there are too many women in any branch that would want to use their sex as a means to lower standards to compete against their male counterparts. I know there's always going to be the one, but that shouldn't hold water against the whole. While there are those who will, there are equally as many men if not more who will swear up and down they all are.

But I saw women in 1st ID.....or was that my imagination also? When did 101st get special in regards to getting women who were already there?

Exactly SSG Philips, as long as the standards are lit lessened or tweaked; because when they are the overall quality of the organization will suffer.

Good one Sir, Salute!

With the tone of gunny and deleting pretty pink panties for the rest of my sentence LOL. I salute back at you!