I’ve always been a fan of beautiful women. I’ve also never understood why many militaries in the world seem to have an aversion to putting female soldiers in the line of fire. As was the case with Canadian Captain Nichola Goddard who was an extremely competent Forward Observation Officer who was killed in the line of duty in the area of Kandahar, Afghanistan… female soldiers are extremely competent – without a doubt just as efficient killers as men are.
The women in the photo at the top are all members of the 2-147th Assault Helicopter Battalion, National Guard based in Minnesota. All of them have flown combat missions in Iraq and taken fire – not just transporting groceries around the safer parts of the country.
Check out this video of Captain Andrea Ourada talking about the mission in which she was flying the Blackhawk helicopter when they started taking fire.
You can read this news story from the MinnPost about their combat mission in Iraq.
There’s also a video featuring Chief Warrant Officer Nicole Schuman – an Apache attack helicopter pilot with more than 1000 combat hours.
With the amount of female soldiers in America’s armed forces they could add hundreds of thousands of extra combat troops to their arsenal if the Yanks would just get over their fear of seeing female soldiers being killed in combat.
What it comes down to is sexism. It’s the same kind of predjudice that stopped black folks from being American fighter pilots in World War Two. It’s about time militaries from all over the world stopped discriminating against females and gay people. They can fight just as hard as anyone else!
