Twenty-two percent of males who were surveyed said they “likely would leave the corps at their next opportunity” if women were involuntarily placed into primary combat roles.
Seventeen percent of females surveyed provided a similar answer, a number the report’s author suggests is surprisingly high.
The findings overwhelmingly reveal that the introduction of women into combat roles could pose a serious quandary for the nation’s fighting forces, which are struggling to adjust to a recent Pentagon order allowing women to fill combat positions.
The Pentagon announced last month it is in the process of removing restrictions on women joining front-line combat units. Women currently are banned from direct combat, although female troops have been in war zones for years.
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