Re: “,” July 3 Mike Rosen column.
It is a mystery why Mike Rosen does not believe that American women are fit to serve in any combat capacity when contemporary history is rife with cases of women directly engaged in conflicts. Setting aside the discussion about qualified women being selected for infantry positions — in situations where the clerks and radio operators manned the line in cases of extreme need, they were used in a defensive mode in which the skills learned in basic combat training were fully sufficient for the situation.
Rosen’s paternalistic and derogatory references to the ability of women to be able to directly participate in the defense of our country is both disrespectful and wildly inaccurate.
John Fechenbach, Highlands Ranch
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