"UK revisits ban on female combat troops" by Associated Press | May 25, 2009
LONDON - "The real point is that we now have practical experience of women in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, and we want to see, genuinely want to see, what effect that will have...."
Only Israel and the former Soviet Union have deployed women as combat troops in modern history, though Israel hasn't sent women into front line fighting since 1948.
The United States doesn't allow women to serve in infantry or special forces units.
British women played a prominent role in World War II, joining auxiliary units of the regular armed forces and serving as officers with the clandestine Special Operations Executive, members of which were deployed behind enemy lines to disrupt or gather intelligence on the enemy....
Oh, the LADY was a SPY, huh?
I always fail to understand why women equate emulating the barbaric atrocities of men in war with equality.
