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From: mauney@ncsu.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Women in combat
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Date: Fri, 12-Aug-83 10:07:48 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 12 10:07:48 1983
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References: bunker.269


Bunker!abhay says:

	Suppose women were sent to combat side by side with men and
	they are in trenches together waiting for the enemy. Remember
	these are not over the hill people but young people over 18.
	What would they be doing to satisfy the urge. Just imagine the
	commie standing with near the trench and the 'soldiers' having
	fun (or may be orgy).

I do not think that having mixed-sex combat troops would lead to
uncontrolled copulation.  On the contrary, dealing with members of the
opposite sex as military equals would probably improve the attitudes of
many men and women.  The military puts its personel through some
intense training, and could teach respect for the opposite sex if it
wanted to.

  Example:  After a couple weeks of segregated basic training, the
recruits get their first mixed exercise, unarmed combat.  The horny
young man steps into the ring with a leer, wrestles with the young
woman, and when he gets the chance, gives her an unnecessary squeeze on
the breast.  The woman has been carefully selected for this
demonstration, and flips him out of the ring so hard he sees spots for
a week.  After a few such lessons, the men know they can't get away
with anything.

  In first aid, the recuits practice pressure points for controlling
bleeding, including the femoral artery on the inner thigh just below
the crotch.  In swimming, they practice stripping off their clothes
and jumping into the water to save someone from drowning.  After a
while, soldiers quit thinking of bodies as sexual apparatus, and are
able to relate to others as comrades, no matter what their gender, or
how they are dressed, or where they are touching them.

  Such training would probably be good for society as a whole, as it
would promote equality, and diminish unrealistic attitudes about sex.

				Jon Mauney
				mcnc!ncsu!mauney