Don't be so sure. I witnessed a friendly fire incident while at camp anaconda in Iraq way back in 2004. A staff sergeant was accidentally shot in the leg by a

Don't be so sure. I witnessed a friendly fire incident while at camp anaconda in Iraq way back in 2004. A staff sergeant was accidentally shot in the leg by a female soldier on the roof who was improperly loading an m240b machine gun behind our position. There were all sorts of things wrong with this picture. First, we generally never loaded that thing until after people were back inside the wire after the first patrol. Secondly, it wasn't her job to load it. She'd never been trained on it but decided to "take the initiative". Thirdly, the m240b has a real shitty design in that it fires from an "open bolt" position. This means if you for example - smack it hard enough - it can start firing even if you didn't pull the trigger. This is called a bolt override and it's why we don't load the thing when there are people in front of it. Anyway the Sergeants leg was fucked. He had to be shipped off to Germany and we never saw him again. But that female soldier? They sent her right back out to the line. The whole unit was pissed, but the brass just covered the whole thing up. That was the moment I decided I was done with the military. If you are curious why I keep mentioning the gender of the soldier, it's not because I have any problem with women in the military or women in combat positions. What I did have a huge problem with at the time was untrained women in combat positions. The military was in the middle of a big diversity push at the time and just started pushing non-combat women into combat roles without any training. We'd just suddenly get a new person on our squad and be expected to trust them. And then when that person fucked up due to a complete lack of training, and shot one of us, we were expected to just treat them as if it never happened and keep working with them - for optics. Dumbest idea ever.