Talk:History of women in the military

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Contents 1 Thoughts on the article 2 Brand new article 3 Treatment of women veterans 4 Women on submarines 5 edit of some unsourced statements, rewording of "Aliens" movie reference 6 sorry forgot to sign comment 7 The Lioness Program

[edit] Thoughts on the article

This article has been fleshed out considerably, but I think it still needs work in removing weasel words. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_words Other than that, its pretty good. Asarelah 17:52, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Brand new article

The articles on the history of women in the military, and of the current debate in thier role in combat units, have been merged into one single new article.

This article will comprise of two sections:

1: The history

A brand new section devoted to the history of women in warfare.

2: The current debate

A re-written version of the existing debate article.

These changes come after discussion on the peer review page of the original women in combat article, which can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Peer_review/Women_in_combat#.5B.5BUser:oldwindybear.7Coldwindybear.5D.5D --SGGH 19:03, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Treatment of women veterans

I wonder if there are issues relating to the treatment of women veterans that can be explored in thier own section of this article? [1]--SGGH 12:21, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Women on submarines

The statement that Australia was the second nation to permit women on combat submarines is just plain wrong. For example, the Swedish Navy has had women serving on subs since the 1980's. The fact that all countries' navies except for those of Australia, Norway, Canada and Spain ban women on submarines is also plain wrong. Apart from the aforementioned example of Sweden, the German Navy also permits women on submarines. There are probably more countries (I'm pretty sure the Danish navy permitted women onboard when they operated submarines, which they no longer do.), but those two are the ones I'm completely certain about from the top of my head. //83.226.220.153 01:38, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Cite some references and be bold. Jinian 02:15, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] edit of some unsourced statements, rewording of "Aliens" movie reference

recently removed 2 unsourced statements in this article: 1) that a US soldier was "abused" by her Iraqi captors, citation please 2) the dubious claim that female MP's are known as "lionesses"

also re-worded the final section about Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, as it was poorly organized and seemed to have been edited down from a longer section

[edit] sorry forgot to sign comment

Kaiser187 22:34, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Lioness Program

"Female Marines Train for Iraq Border Security" by Staff Sgt Raymie G. Cruz, 3dMAW

http://www.usmc.mil Cricket316 02:41, 24 March 2007 (UTC)