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4Q2u2

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3. Good Honest Post
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 10:15 PM
Jan 2013

Pay is based on location in a general theater of operations no matter job or sex. If you are in Iraq you get the money, same as Afghanistan. So woman are not missing out on the extra pay. The draft has always bent be back and forth to each side. There are plenty of good Americans that volunteer to fill our ranks but then again, if there were no deferments and the 1%ers children had to go into combat. How many wars would we be in and how long would they last. If all those Chicken Hawks in the Senate and Congress had to send their dear children to die I would venture to bet we would have a whole different mindset.

Excellent post! smirkymonkey Jan 2013 #1
People always said war would end if women were soldiers leftstreet Jan 2013 #2
Good Honest Post 4Q2u2 Jan 2013 #3
thanks, redqueen. Whisp Jan 2013 #4
k and r--thank you for this excellent post, redqueen niyad Jan 2013 #5
K&R Whisp Jan 2013 #6
+100000. I have nothing to add but a huge K&R nt riderinthestorm Jan 2013 #7
Hopefully this will make it less so BainsBane Jan 2013 #8
I agree with what you say for the most part ellisonz Jan 2013 #9
Yes, I do see your point, redqueen Jan 2013 #11
I'm the mother of a female war veteran ismnotwasm Jan 2013 #10
draft RILib Jan 2013 #12
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