Should women serve in military combat roles? Texas A&M Foundation President Ed Davis ’67 and Brig. Gen. Joe Ramirez Jr. ’79, commandant for the Corps of Cadets, discuss the military's controversial ruling and how it will affect the future of the military and Corps.

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Below: Spc. Heather Lane '00 at FOB Shank in Afghanistan, 2010.


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BLUF - No to reducing the requirments/standards. Having had the oppertunity to witness women in combat, I think they are perfectly capable of certain aspects of combat arms. The women I saw were in trucks and perform all duties; Driver, TC, gunner and dismount. I was also at a FOB that the SF and ODA owned. They are not your normal human beings. My opinion is that standards should not be modified in order to accomidate women. Let them fly attack helicopters and be apart of MP units. There maybe women who can meet the qualifications of an infantryman, paratrooper or artilleryman but I think they are far and few between. I don't think there is any woman physically capable of being SF. I know some pretty awesome women who are machines when it comes to triathlons and crossfit but they are not in the same universe in regards to the SF that I was around.

[This message has been edited by Rabid Cougar (edited 4/30/2013 9:08p).]

I don't understand the relevance of the photo. That chick is a Spc, meaning she is not the pilot. She probably is a maintainer and therefore does not have a combat job.

Plus she's enlisted so she probably didn't graduate from A&M in 2010.

Yeah because none of us Aggies that graduate decide to enlist...

Commission through OCS? No doubt. Enlisting is probably not too common. Little research shows that she enlisted in 2007 and didn't have her degree as of 2010.

http://www.army.mil/otf/faces_lane.html

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Lane is scheduled to return home at the end of the year. She and her husband plan to move back to Texas, finish their degrees at Texas A&M, and then be commissioned as officers in the Texas National Guard.

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I don't understand the relevance of the photo. That chick is a Spc, meaning she is not the pilot. She probably is a maintainer and therefore does not have a combat job.

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Article mentions she's a chaplain assistant. Writer was probably just trying find an enlisted member with A&M ties.

[This message has been edited by Ag of Northern Virginia (edited 5/1/2013 5:39a).]

Quite a few of my classmates from '93, including me enlisted. Even more are those who went in without degrees completed.