Originally Posted by
Training Risky
But how can it be newsworthy when women have been given official recognition for attached-arms roles since the Crimean War? The media should move past it.
Oh for goodness sake - do some research and use some critical thinking.
The whole `don't call out women' trope is as tired as the `don't speculate on the cause of the accident' bollocks.
She was a very notable soldier.
All branches of the military everywhere are still predominantly male.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_...ary_by_country
Take Australia for example.
All roles in the Australian Defence Force are open to women. The first women became involved with the Australian armed forces with the creation of the Army Nursing Service in 1899. On the 30th of June 2017, women were found to make up 16.5% of the Australian Defence Force (with 20.6% in the Royal Australian Air Force, 20.4% in the Royal Australian Navy and 13.2% in the Australian Army).[10] However, up until 2016, only 74% of the total number of available roles in the Australian armed forces were available to women. Despite this, using 1998-99 figures, the ADF had the highest percentage of women in its employ in the world.[11] In 1998, Australia became the fourth nation in the world to allow women to serve on its submarines.
Australia was the fourth country to permit female crew on submarines, doing so in June 1998 on board Collins class submarines. Australia's first deployment of female sailors in a combat zone was aboard HMAS Westralia in the Persian Gulf during the 1991 Gulf War.
On 27 September 2011, Defence Minister Stephen Smith announced that women will be allowed to serve in frontline combat roles by 2016.[12]
So, in my view, women are still vastly in the minority, and deserve to be recognised and called out
Especially really outstanding ones like CPO Kent..