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Should women be shielded from combat?  view story
Saturday, May 21, 2005
Kevin Diaz - - Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Spec. Xao Her went to Iraq with a quartermaster company that was supposed to provide supplies to all-male combat troops.
Instead, her company came under frequent attack. "When you're in Iraq, you're in a war zone," said the 28-year-old Army Reservist from St. Paul. "We were under fire almost every week."
Her's experience is common among the 60,000 women who have been deployed in support of the war in Iraq over the past two years, a number that is reshaping the debate in Congress over women's role in the military.
In an effort to keep women out of combat, a House committee approved a measure Thursday that would bar women from jobs related to direct combat operations, codifying a 1994 Pentagon policy that critics say is out of date.
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