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Originally Posted by jambutty
It depends on how you define combat roles.
Women serving on warships are in potential combat roles even if they don’t actually man the guns and missile launchers as is every person on board. Incoming missiles and shells do not discriminate as they shred a ship to ribbons. Neither does an exploding shell in the field.
I understand that no woman will be knowingly be placed in a position where hand to hand combat might occur - in other words the infantry.
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Thanx .... that clears things up some .... so, that means that in the British forces, a woman could act as a forward artillery observer, as did the late Captain Goddard.