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Originally Posted by raeanna74
From what I understand, the Israeli military has successfull integrated men and women in all the areas of service. I may be wrong and someone please correct me if they have any information to the contrary. If my information is correct though perhaps we can take lessons from them in regards to how they've effectively combined the genders in their fighting forces. .
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You are absolutely correct.
It is pretty wild, walking around with a good-looking women, dressed in fatigues and combat boots, carrying an uzi.
BTW - Interesting side note/fact: You can tell the "job" of the israeli soldier by the weapon they carry. If you are serving in the Israeli army, you are always active and always carrying a weapon (like most civilians as well, you walk around the bus station and most people have a side-arm). Anyway, if you held an office or support/admin position, you carried an Uzi, if you were in the infantry, you carried a rifle, etc.
Anyway, to your comment, we cannot mimmick the Israeli situation and i don't think we want to.
Women are fully integrated into the Israeli military because the shit that goes on in Isreal doesn't differentiate between civillian or soldier, man or woman, adult or child. Even if you are a civilian, you are pretty much always at risk and almost always living in a war-zone like climate.
For us, it has always been a "send the boys" kinda thing. Wars were never something that "involved" the children and the women (i.e. in the bullets whizzing past your head kinda sense, not the staying home and worrying about daddy kinda sense).
It is a totally different situation for the Israelis, and while I appreciate their situation and how they have handled integration, i do not wish us to experience what they have in order to have developed their integrated military.