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From: hnkst2@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Hanhwe N. Kim)
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Subject: Re: Combat MOS for Women ?
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Date: 21 Jun 91 01:49:57 GMT
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From: "Hanhwe N. Kim" <hnkst2@unix.cis.pitt.edu>

 (Greg Pierce) writes:
>I know that some
>years ago the IDF abandon the policy of women in combat.
>What was this based on, and what other military force has
>pursued this doctrine?
>

The Israeli Defense Forces stopped assigning women to combat MOS's
because opposing arab forces were more reluctant to surrender to
IDF units where women were present, thereby resulting in 
consistently higher casualties for those units.

I think Russians in WWII had women fighter pilots.

-Han Kim