WOMEN HAVE WHAT IT TAKES

WOMEN HAVE WHAT IT TAKES

-        Carol Barkalow
In this short personal essay, Barkalow, an army officer, argues that women should be allowed to engage in frontline combat if they so choose. Reviewing some of the traditional attitudes of women and the military, she maintains that if women have the same training as men, and are as physically and mentally capable, they should be allowed to serve in all types of combat units.
The writer joined West Point, a military academy in New York, because she loved discipline, comradeship, sportsmanship, and helping teammates. Women are humiliated at that time. But after ten years, the situation had changed. They were respected as their equals. However senior army officers have not worked with women as peers. Therefore they consider women as mothers, wives, or daughters and they are not ready to send women to the front. The writer participated in the Gulf War willingly. Although her troop was not in the front, they had to face the equal danger defencelessly.
A Vietnam vet’s experience shows that women can be more disciplined, tougher, and more willing to chase the enemy. Next, it is argued that men protect women more than necessary. But, in fact, men overprotect men, not women. A close bond develops when men and women are in the front. The writer thinks that trained and competent women should be allowed to serve in the infantry. They can handle the situation mentally, physically, and emotionally. So far as pregnancy in the army is concerned, women are made responsible, not men who helped them to get pregnant. Finally, she believes that qualified persons should be given the suitable job regardless of gender.

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