Despite winning the Silver Star for bravery under fire in Afghanistan and being personally decorated by the Vice President, SPC Monica Brown (a medic who happens to be female) is being pulled off the front lines because her profile is getting too much "attention". It's apparent from the Washington Post article that this was not the decision of anyone in her company:
"I didn't want to leave," Brown said, after being pulled from the platoon. Robbins said he and his men, who called Brown "Doc," also wanted to keep her as their medic. "I've seen a lot of grown men who didn't have the courage and weren't able to handle themselves under fire like she did," said Staff Sgt. Aaron Best of Canton, N.C., Robbins's gunner that day. "She never missed a beat."
Military women don't just happen to be in combat roles, we need them in combat roles for our current conflicts to deal with the cultural sensitivities of working with Muslim women in Iraq and Afghanistan. This move by the Army was most likely ordered by some staff weenie at the White House to appease the blue-haired, geezerly voting bloc that thinks young girls shouldn't be playing with the boys and other outdated "Leave it to Beaver" paradigms on society. In doing so, they are seriously undermining the mission at hand. (h/t to Ms. Kiyum)
Back where you belong, missy!
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