>>>One major issue with women serving on combat roles it the protection issue. This is when
>>>men might struggle with the notion of women being hirt or killed in combat. It's a bigger
>>>issue that most people relaize.
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>>Yes, it is. Many of our male cops develop a protection mentality for the female officers and I'm sure it goes that way in the infantry too. Of course, I'm told the Greeks wanted that in their warriors.
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>Well, we know how they dealt with their issues, don't we?

I thought that the Greeks, how you say, "preferred male company" only (well ... the Trojans in part. I think), and women were just for procreation. So I don't think this is a good example. They'd probably have just let any women comrades go get minced :-)