Women should be able to fight for their country if they want.

If a women can meet the physical standards, then why shouldnt they be able to honor their country and stand beside the men that are trying to do so as well. Men arent born with a 6 pack and big biceps. They have to work for their strenght. Women are able to do the same. Yes, many women wouldnt meet the physical standards, but that is because its not something they want to do. Not every women wants to run out and fight, but the ones that do should have the opportunity. This is not an all men country. There are women and men. So women and men should have the same options.

Women in combat are female soldiers assigned to combat positions, as in nations such as Greece, India, the United Kingdom and the United States, which allows women to serve in Artillery roles, while still excluding them from units with a dedicatedInfantry role (see the US Combat Exclusion Policy). The United States allows women in most combat flying positions.

Primary issues
The following is a list of issues at the center of the debate whether or not gender integration lends to combat effectiveness. Physical concerns The female skeletal system is less dense, and more prone to breakages. There was also concern that, in aviation, the female body is not as adept at handling the increased g-forces experienced by combat pilots; in fact, there is now evidence that the male body is less able to handle the g-forces than the female body: women are less likely to black out due to shorter blood vessel routes in the neck. Furthermore, health issues regarding women are argued as the reason that some submarine services avoid accepting women, although mixed-gender accommodations in a small space is also an issue, as is explained in more depth below. The Center for Military Readiness, an organization that seeks to limit womens participation in the military, stated that Female soldiers [are], on average, shorter and smaller than men, with 45-50% less upper body strength and 25-30% less aerobic capacity, which is essential for endurance. However, an article in the Army Times July 29, 1996, states that some women do possess the physical attributes suitable to become combat soldiers. Psychological concerns The disruption of a combat units esprit de corps is cited as another reason for women to be banned from front-line combat situations. Indeed, many soldiers have stated that they could not trust a woman to perform her duties in a place where trusting their fellow soldier would be critical. There is a secondary concern that romantic relationships between men and women on the front lines could disrupt a units figh ting capability and a fear that a high number of women would deliberately become pregnant in order to escape combat duties. In the British Army, which continues to bar women from serving in infantry-roled units, all recruits joining to fill infantry vacancies partake in a separate training program called the Combat Infantrymans Course. In the American armed forces, the 1994 rules forbidding female involvement in combat units of brigade size or smaller are being bent. Colonel Cheri Provancha, stationed in Iraq, argues that: This war has proven that we need to revisit the policy, because they are out there doing it. A third argument against the inclusion of women in combat units is that placing women in combat where they are at risk of being captured and tortured and possibly sexually assaulted is unacceptable. Rhonda Cornum, then a major and flight surgeon, and now a Brigadier General and Command Surgeon for United States Army Forces Command, was an Iraqi POW in 1991. At the time, she was asked not to mention that she had been molested while in captivity. Cornum subsequently disclosed the attack, but said A lot of people make a big deal about getting molested, she noted later, adding: But in the hierarchy of things that were going wrong, that was pretty low on my list. Finally, there is the argument that by not incorporating women into combat, theAmerican government is failing to tap into another source of soldiers for military combat operations. This argument claims that the government is creating a military that treats women as second-class citizens and not equals of men. Other observers state that without women, the military would have numerous manpower shortfalls they would not be able to fill. Tactical concerns In On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman briefly mentions that female soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces have been officially prohibited from serving in close combat military operations since 1948. (However, in 2001, subsequent to publication, women did begin serving in IDF combat units on an experimental basis.) The reason for removing female soldiers from the front lines was due less to the performance of female soldiers, and more due to the behavior of the male infantrymen after witnessing a woman wounded. The IDF saw a complete loss of control over soldiers who apparently experienced an uncontrollable, protective, instinctual aggression, severely degrading the units combat effectiveness. Grossman also notes that Islamic militants rarely, if ever, surrender to female soldiers. In modern warfare where intelligence is perhaps more important than enemy casualties, every factor reducing combatants willingness to fight is considered. Similarly, Iraqi and Afghan civilians are o ften not intimidated by female soldiers. However, in such environments, having female soldiers serving within a combat unit does have the advantage of allowing for searches on female civilians, and in some cases the female areas of segregated mosques, while causing less offense amongst the occupied population. A notable example of this would be female US military personnel who are speciallyselected to participate in patrols and raids for this purpose. One example of this type of unit is the USMC Lioness program, which used female Marines to search females at checkpoints both on the Iraq-Syrian border and inside urban areas. Another example is the US Army Cultural Support Teams (CSTs). These units, designed to accompany special operations teams and work alongside them in deployed environments, are intended to provide access to the information and needs of local community women in communities where contact between male Soldiers and civilian women is culturally fraught. There has, however been evidence that shows that women in combat in OIF and OEF have had success acquiring intelligences from children and women more than men have due to cultural constraints. Men are not permited to talk to women who are not in their family or are not married to them. Besides the issue of women in combat, theve been a strategic advantage to help train women in police f orces. This empowers women to have more of position in their community outside of their homes. Melody Kemp mentions that the Australian soldiers have voicedsimilar concern saying these soldiers are reluctant to take wom en on reconnaissance or special operations, as they fear that in the case of combat or discovery, their priority will be to save the women and not to complete the mission. Thus while men might be able to be programmed to kill, it is not as easy to program men to neglect women.