Women in the Military

In democracy we have a system of checks and balances to protect the people of this country from a tyrannical system
of government that would only abuse and destroy. Yet, there is still one part of our most marvelous democratic system that is
untouched by the needs of checks and balances, when in action at least. Our military seems to be the only place where one man can control one hundred at a time with no objection. This is where democracy fails us and the people of this country, at least the
soldiers, are subject to an inequality in rights. This is a place where men outnumber woman one thousand to one and yet, there are

those that have a twisted view that woman are denied there right to be in battle along side with men. There are some that want
woman to join the army and fight along men without seeing the ramifications of their vision. Woman should not be allowed to fight
along side men in battles because its exposes them to a higher chance of physical injury not only in combat but in training, sexual
assault, and there will never be a large enough number of woman joining to make a difference.

Women surpass men everyday more and more. The list of jobs women do better than men is ever-growing and
changing. Women can now be better mechanics, doctors, construction foramens, and other types of working individuals that used
to be just for men. In the last five to ten years the number of women in colleges and universities has increased drastically and have
started to even surpass that of men. Despite the common woman's endless list of opportunities nowadays they still cant do
everything a man can. To be specific the number of woman in the military has not changed and neither has their performance. The
demanding physical activity in combat, not to mention training, has been known to bring down even the strongest of men; wouldn't
that mean that even the strongest of woman would most likely fall as well? In a report by the Presidential Commission on the
Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces (report date November 15, 1992, published in book form by Brassey's in 1993):
"The average female Army recruit is 4.8 inches shorter, 31.7 pounds lighter, has 37.4 fewer pounds of muscle, and 5.7 more
pounds of fat than the average male recruit. She has only 55 percent of the upper-body strength and 72 percent of the lower-body
strength An Army study of 124 men and 186 women done in 1988 found that women are

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