Jessica Lynch has amnesia

[Dis]

They are trying to get her to regain her memory. But is that a good thing? Isn't amnesia a good thing in this case. The brain does this for a reason. To protect itself from harmful events.


Call me a sexist if you will, but women should not be in combat zones in the army.

[Ted Striker]

What exactly is the extent of her amnesia?

Are there some events she can't remember? Only a specific period of time?

Or does she have some kind of brain damage where she has trouble doing basic functions?

[Dis]

she cannot remember any events after she was captured. she still knows who she is etc.

[SlowwHand]

Re: Jessica Lynch has amnesia

Originally posted by Dissident
They are trying to get her to regain her memory. But is that a good thing? Isn't amnesia a good thing in this case. The brain does this for a reason. To protect itself from harmful events.


Call me a sexist if you will, but women should not be in combat zones in the army.

This is a poor viewpoint.

To go with your thought process, only straight males should be allowed to serve their country.
(I'm assuming here, that you oppose Gay service.)

And to answer the thread question, she can deal with what she remembers.
What lurks in the mind unremembered, can't be dealt with as easily.

[Ted Striker]

Oh, so it sounds like a side-effect from her going into shock.

I think that is common when something traumatic happens.

[chequita guevara]

Anyone who doesn't have a physical or mental disability and wants to serve in the Armed Forces should be allowed to do so . . . unless there's a valid security reason to keep them out. I shoulda been allowed to serve!

[SlowwHand]

Exactly.

I voted for "The military should have all women divisions/units and all men divisions/units", but would add, I guess 2 more units, to allow for Gaydom.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Dissident
she cannot remember any events after she was captured. she still knows who she is etc.

So she doesn't remember that her Iraqi doctors, from whom she was "rescued," actually protected her by hiding her when Saddam's soldiers came to the hospital? And she doesn't remember that, two days before her "rescue," the same brave Iraqi doctors actually risked their lives by putting her into an ambulance and driving her up to the American checkpoint, only to have to turn around once the Americans began firing on them? That's convenient.

[Ted Striker]

I think all US officers are trained at West Point to shoot at every doctor they see.

[SlowwHand]

Or VMI.

[yago]

I don't see any difference between a man and a woman in arms. They both can get traumatized by the things they go through. Woman can as good shoot with rifles as men do. It's plain silly to exclude women from fighting on the front.

[Ted Striker]

I agree Slow it's pretty much standard doctrine throughout all the military schools.

I think in the advanced classes they teach you how to shoot the nurses too.

[asleepathewheel]

I fail to see the relation between her having amnesia and women being in the military. I imagine many men would have amnesia if they saw their colleagues killed, be beaten over several days, be stabbed, shot and god knows what else done to her.

That said I don't have a problem with women in the military. Why prevent people that actually want to join up from joining up? The women that I have known have been as capable in every aspect of life as I or men have been. So why not the military? It doesn't mean you slap them with an M-16 or whatever and send them in the first wave.

to people who want to be in the military.

[Kirnwaffen]

Women should be allowed to serve in combat units IF they meet the same physical standards as men. Period. This has nothing to do with Jessica Lynch because she was not serving in a combat unit.

[SlowwHand]

And shooting dumbass 2nd Lieutenants.
Can't have them out there making whacko decisions, not even consulting their top N.C.O.