Women In The Military

"Women in combat" is a phrase that creates emotions rooted in people's subconscious. Images of soldiers being brutally and graphically killed race throughout minds. Movies such as "Saving Private Ryan" solidify these emotions as concrete in society's collective minds. However, today's military women are placed in harm's way. This has been proven with the ambush of Jessica Lynch and her fellow soldiers during the War in Iraq.
Today's wars are not fought by hundreds of thousands men storming up a beach head or being dropped from hundreds of planes in the middle of the night. Today's wars…