Ten years after the Pentagon repealed the ban on women in ground combat positions, female soldiers have risen in the ranks of frontline units.
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The Army, facing its worst recruiting crisis since Vietnam, strains to meet its priorities without more soldiers. Women seizing a more prominent role in combat, some soldiers say, could ease the recruiting crunch.
Yet the intractable problem of sexual assault and harassment in the ranks – reports surged in the Pentagon's most recent survey – threatens progress. One female combat officer recalled during reporting of this story of being told by a male senior officer that she'd have received better reviews if she had slept with her superiors.
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Obstacle no one perverted men accosting them assaulting them and leaders ignoring
Think beyond war and violence. Evolve.
The enemy never cared about the front line….As a truck driver and fueler, Quartermasters are sitting ducks. On Pakistan’s border in Salerno, I got hurt after our first and secondary 240k gal. fuel bags were blown sky high(gotta love diesel)…That felt pretty “frontline” to us AND the Marines who were with us as artillery because the Army does nothing for them but provide fuel to their aircrafts as well as ours. Oh, and best believe, sometimes the enemy is in the same uniforms as yours…Sometimes the war was right inside your sleeping quarters, but 🤫, we don’t talk about that part to much🫡🤞🏾