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Sound Off: Have Your Say on Women in Combat, Benghazi Hearing

Local Voices blogger Denise Williams wants readers to weigh in on the biggest stories of the day.

 

A day after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified on the Benghazi attack, Gen. Leon Panetta was slated to announce that a ban on women in combat would be lifted, effective immediately. What's your take? 

Click to read more from Local Voices blogger Denise Williams.

  • Should women be allowed on the front lines?

    (Voting has been closed for this question)
    • Yes
        8 (61%)
    • No
        5 (38%)
    Total votes: 13
  • Should women be allowed in Special Forces?

    (Voting has been closed for this question)
    • Yes
        3 (100%)
    • No
        0 (0%)
    Total votes: 3
  • Should adjustments or accommodations be made to physical training requirements for women going into combat Infantry roles?

    (Voting has been closed for this question)
    • Yes
        0 (0%)
    • No
        3 (100%)
    Total votes: 3
  • Should Secretary Clinton lose her job due to the charge of dereliction of duty?

    (Voting has been closed for this question)
    • Yes
        0 (0%)
    • No
        2 (100%)
    Total votes: 2
  • Does it make a difference that it was a coordinated terrorist attack targeting our Americans?

    (Voting has been closed for this question)
    • Yes
        1 (50%)
    • No
        1 (50%)
    Total votes: 2
  • Does it matter what the White House knew and when?

    (Voting has been closed for this question)
    • Yes
        2 (100%)
    • No
        0 (0%)
    Total votes: 2
  • Would deployment of American military assets sitting off the coast of Libya at the time of the attack have kept the weapons that were stored at the compound out of the hands of the jihadists?

    (Voting has been closed for this question)
    • Yes
        1 (50%)
    • No
        1 (50%)
    Total votes: 2
  • Your vote will only count once. This is not a scientific poll. View Results Vote!
Related Topics: Benghazi, Hillary Clinton, Patch Poll, and Women in Combat

Edward Andrysiak

1:04 pm on Friday, January 25, 2013

Well...there probably isn't one guy that wouldn't agree that his ex wife qualifies for combat duty!
Seriously though, I would like to see women ONLY in combat support positions. There is plenty of important non front line work to be done when fighting a war. I see it as just as honorable, important, and yes brave. I just am not comfortable thinking of a future wife and mom in a bayonette fight in the trenches somewhere and I really do not like the idea of a woman being taken as a prisoner of war...for a lot of reasons.
I say...we Americans love and cherish our gals way too much to send them to the front lines and into combat. I think it's a bad idea.

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zimmy

9:03 am on Saturday, February 2, 2013

No problem, just don't lower standards which has already been done. Feminists have begun to eat their own (young).

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