Pentagon Opens All Combat Positions to Women

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Good news, unless they lower the standards.

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This is long overdue. Given the fact that robotics and advanced technology is making gender irrelevant to fighting wars.

No it's not.  The idea that we'll ever get rid of the need for boots on the ground is one that keeps recurring and keeps getting refuted.  There are, and likely will always be some military tasks that require pure physical strength.  The basic physiological differences between the genders ensure that there will be some tasks in which the proportion of personnel capable of doing them will skew towards males.  Even when technology causes the level of strength required to do certain tasks to decrease, it makes available new capabilities that previously were impossible to now be done by those at the highest level of physical strength.

That said, as long as they don't weaken the standards to promote gender equality in all military specialties, I have no problem with ending de jure restrictions.  Just don't expect there to not remain MOSes in which there are de facto restrictions.

Nobody is arguing women should have 50% of every combat role.  They are arguing for allowing women the chance to do them, so long as they meet the standards.  Equality of opportunity... not outcome.  Conservatives should love this.

We do!