weareunique, I heard somewhere recently that one requirement for SS training was to urinate in ones pants for a day or two without changing.

How do you think the wet ones will assist here?

Furthermore, I recon the last thing a guy needs, while in the heat of battle is some chick squatting next to him.

Any form of distraction could be fatal, and this could well cause a distraction.

Please, can everyone understand I am not sexist.

I fully accept that women are willing and able to fight, it's just that were do we draw the line.

Thanks Suze I do my best. The times Graham has banned me have taken me completely by surprise.

Sending him unhappy faces via e-mail does not work when banned btw.

Hey Leap, you sod. Nice point about being conscripted but I reckon parents would want to hide their boys as well. We’re told we should raise our children without letting them play with toy weapons – easy enough but no idea why given the world we live in.

New Zealand, Israel, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, South Korea and Scandinavian countries have women in combat roles.

So when at war fighting alongside these countries the Aussie boys wouldn’t be heard across the fields of blowing poppies and crosses in a row saying “hold the torch high” but whinging “Oooo I got girl germs”.

Rehctub:”I fully accept that women are willing and able to fight, it's just that were do we draw the line.”

The problem is that you think it is your line to draw.

>> The problem is that you think it is your line to draw <<

Well said J.

This may come as a shock to the likes of Rehctub; women have been peeing and having periods since humans first started wandering about on 2 feet (maybe earlier) - women have managed (quelle surprise) in all and every situation throughout history, think they just may be able to cope in 21st C warfare.

Well said Ammonite.
I will go one step further and say that I truly believe that women are stronger than men mind-wise, and that they would be a calming influence in a war situation, given the same training as the men.

Female nurses have been in or near the front line of wars since the beginning of wars, and have seen and dealt with a lot of awful situations.
They seem to manage just as well as the men.

It's interesting that we seem to be swapping gender roles to prove something.

Anthropologically speaking, men have always been the warriors and women the nurturers....a highly successful complementary partnership throughout the ages.

That would explain the men being the foot soldiers and the women being the nurses - it doesn't suggest that the female contribution to a wartime endeavour was/is less than the males, just that it is different.

Poirot

Some of the best nurses I know are male. And some females really should go out and be soldiers, please. I'm over bullying female bosses.

Men and women: We're not from Mars or Venus, we're from planet earth.

Suze

Women have been at the front line of all wars - not just as nurses but as interpreters, radiologists and spies - although you won't find Vanna admitting that anytime soon. In fact women have made significant contributions throughout history - just not much by the way of records have been kept.

Wonder why.