Females with guns

By searching for "army girls", a reader arrived from Google on the Ukranian army ad below. It may not have been quite what he was looking for.

But his arrival did highlight a sore deficiency in my coverage here.

I shall have to remedy it. Fortunately I know of the Israeli Defense Force's high standards:



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Gotta have face paint:



Patrolling the border:



Apparently done patrolling:





Visiting Jerusalem:



The Western Wall:



Uhm...



Off duty:











Uhm...where was I? Oh, right.

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Clearly the IDF has the right idea, especially relative to potential foes. (Good thing they aren't fighting the Russians, eh?)

But seriously, when roughly half your population isn't forced to wear beekeeper suits it certainly increases available "personpower".

Don't like the army? Well there's always the air force.

Back in the US, the Center for American Progress has endorsed:

Enlarging the recruiting pool by dropping the ban on women serving in ground combat units and repealing the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law

Now that's some change I can believe in.