The “No More Jennifer Lynch’s” Rule


WASHINGTON - The military would need congressional approval before putting women in new direct combat roles under a bill approved by a House committee, its Republican sponsors say.

…But Democrats said it was unclear whom the provision would affect and argued it could drastically impact the way the services operate, especially in wartime. …
…President Bush requested $442 billion for defense for the budget year that begins Oct. 1, excluding money to pay for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. ..
…The House bill, like the Senate's version, envisions creating a $50 billion fund for the conflicts for next year -- but provides no money for it. ..
…The measure also calls for increasing the military by 10,000 Army soldiers and 1,000 Marines, boosting pay grades for uniformed personnel by 3.1 percent and permanently providing all Reserve and Guard members’ access to military health care services…
…Those units provide infantry, armor and artillery units with equipment, ammunition, maintenance and other supplies in combat zones. The Army started allowing women to staff such support posts last year and says it is complying with the 1994 policy…

from The Dallas Morning News

I suppose that telling service minded girls and women to just stay home and roll bandages and dance with the Men at the USO makes sense to some people… Okay, it doesn’t. It doesn’t make sense, it’s stupid and exclusionary and backwards. In this day of the armed services suffering continued fatalities and being unable to meet their quotas and no end to our military involvement overseas , is this really the right time to tell half the population that they are not needed to go to the aid of their country? Who will fill those slots? Where are all these extra men going to come from?