How Will Women will be used in Special Operations Units?

  The commander of U.S. special operations said Tuesday he expects to see women in the elite commando forces now that the Pentagon is allowing them to serve in combat. I suppose that it will take some time for this to transpire but we can certainly look forward to it.

There will be some growing pains as the military goes through the trials and errors associated with making the change but in the end it will work out well. The biggest problem may end up being with training instructors who will have to realize that they don't need to change when it comes to the treatment of women.

The troops who join Special Operations units are highly motivated to begin with and they don't want to be babied or treated with kid gloves. They don't want anything to take away from the prestige associated with completing the training.

Adm. William McRaven, head of the US special operations command, said he was "fully supportive" of the decision to lift the ban on women in combat. "It's time to do this," he said, noting that women have long served in supporting roles for special operations forces.

Special operations units are famously selective, putting prospective recruits through punishing physical and mental tests, with most applicants failing to make the grade.

For those of you who may want to believe that there will be lower standards for women don't buy into that philosophy. I do believe that there will be accomodations made based on gender but there can and will not be a lowering of the physical and mental standards required.

I did have the pleasure of training with women during Army Paratrooper training and every woman in the class that I was in did the exact same things that I had to do. There is no doubt in my mind about the abilities of troops who happen to be female. I will admit that there are some who use their sex as a tool to get their way and quite often it works, but by and large for the most part every female troop that I have served with has done an honorable job.

I am looking forward the military where female troops have been fully integrated into all phases of military operations. www.militaryringexpress.com/products