Right Side NewsJude Eden blogs at Poltical Animal and is a graduate of Hillsdale College in Michigan and the Hallmark Institute of Photography in Massachusetts. She served in the Marine Corps from 2004-2008 and deployed to Fallujah, Iraq in 2005-6. Jude is a cancer survivor and cellist now living in North Carolina with her Brazilian husband.
The Invisible War is a 2012 documentary showing the shocking prevalence of sexual assault in the military, and worse, the cover-ups that tend to follow. The rate of assaults against women is completely unacceptable as it is. We should not put women in infantry and special forces where the risk will be even greater to […]
Under Sequestration, equipment isn’t the only thing on the chopping block. Personnel will be as well, and all will have to prove their value in the positions they hold or want to hold. With the conflicting directives of cutting fat vs. compliance with female quotas in the combat units, it is qualified and experienced men […]
In continuing the discussion of opening combat roles to women, we have the argument that women are already there, deploying and fighting in hot zones. This is true, and it gives us a record of the problems we are already experiencing as a result. Wasted: Valuable Time, Training, and Resources I talk about several of […]
…No one wants to talk about the fact that in the days before a woman’s cycle she loses half her strength, to say nothing of the emotional ups and downs that affect judgment… It’s not all about qualification. I’m speaking as a female Marine Iraq war vet who served in the combat zone doing entry […]