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	GA National Guard Promotes Female Brigadier General

Jo5329

11-5-2007 6:09 AM

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Jo5329 says:

Wow! 275 years old and first women.

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1-1-2008 9:49 AM

caoilfhionn

This kind of scares me in a way, but ...I'm not a fan of women in combat, etc.-considering all their physical differences, and also considering what a woman's presence can do to unit cohesion.

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