Women Should Have the Right to Fight on the Front Lines. **March Tournament**

For many years women have been allowed to fight in comeback. Women were allowed to first fight at the end of WW2, 1917-1918. WW2 was allot more of a gruesome war then wars we have today. Lets state a scripture:Ecclesiastes 3:8"A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace"It doesn't say "A time to love, a time to hate, a time for MEN to fight in war"Simply, if you love your country and want to protect it, then you should have every right to weather you are a man or a women.I will be arguing my 1st "Women and Equality"Many people want to complain that women don't have the mental and physical capabilities that men do. This is why Military have strict physical and mental test For those who wish to enlist. Only those who past these test are allowed in.A sergeant states: "The military has different physical standards based on age and sex for the Army and Marines. In either service, the standards for both sexes would be the same for those trying to get into the infantry and other combat arms specialties."As you can see, men and women both have the same physical standards that able to get into the miliraty thus, front lines.Trust:There is no difference between the trust of man and women. Its like a man saying "I don't trust that person to have my back because he has red hair" which completely makes no sense what so ever. The aspects of trust between man and women are the same, women are just as capable to save a mans life.Quick Story:I was sitting in the cockpit of my AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopter when my division got a desperate call for help. It was August 2004, and I was a part of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit based in Iraq. Insurgents were hitting our troops with mortar rounds. The Marine squad was out of ammunition and couldn't shoot back. They had just fought a long and fierce battle, supply reinforcements couldn't reach them and they didn't even have any green smoke to mark their position for us. They needed assistance immediately took out the enemy target with the last remaining missile on our aircraft. Several months later, I was talking to a Marine. When he found out I flew Cobras, he started to recount an experience he had in Iraq in which a Cobra shot a missile and saved his squad. Turned out, it was the same mission; the missile came from my aircraft. He stared at me and said, "Ma'am, you saved my life." Did it matter that the one who fired that missile was a woman, or that she was black and gay? Absolutely not! - Vernice Armour who served in Iraq. He then goes on to state :"Women have already proven we can handle ourselves on the front lines. And in recent times, even with the ban on women in combat in place, women have been POWs. The Lioness Program, the Marine Corps all-female search team, is an example of why we can't accomplish our front line missions without women. The reality of modern warfare is that there are no front lines.Honestly, I am offended by how many times I hear "women in combat" and "lowering standards" used in the same sentence. True, the average man is physically stronger than the average woman. Standards should not be lowered and women don't want them to be. No one should be in a job where he or she doesn't meet the standards -- not every man, for example is fit to be a Navy SEAL."As you can see, women are just as capable for saving a life then a man. It doesn't matter if your black, white, purple, red hair or gay. It simply doesn't matter.Vernice Armour then goes on to state :Women have already proven we can handle ourselves on the front lines. And in recent times, even with the ban on women in combat in place, women have been POWs. The Lioness Program, the Marine Corps all-female search team, is an example of why we can't accomplish our front line missions without women. The reality of modern warfare is that there are no front lines.So, what is the major malfunction that makes it bad for women to fight upon the front lines? They are human, just like the rest of the men who fight on the front lines. Sources: http: http://www.usatoday.com... http://www.openbible.info... http://www.cnn.com...