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Sure, she *looks* cute, but notice they're not showing her hands? The hands holding the minigun?

And the next picture down-that Ukranian's hair is clearly a deadly weapon.

Don't let their babealiciousness fool you, people!

They're trained to kill.

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These girls are not trained to kill.
They're obviously non-combat duty (which is btw the default for girls, girls have to specifically ask to get into actual combat units).
I could kill them by just telling them the sheqem (sort of a discounted store in military bases for purchasing things such as food, drinks, sweets, and such...) is permenantly closed and they will now have to pass their days actually working. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Wraithlord: When did you serve? (you make it sound so long ago) and where? (You imply you served in a software unit, however you also said you only served 3 years... so...)

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I'm pretty sure they still train them, Tpek. And anyway, if you didn't happen to notice, these are soldiers from around the world, so I'm thinking they could be trained to kill you with food, drinks, sweets, or whatever else came to hand, and you wouldn't be any the wiser until your head fell off.

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I'm quite certain that in America at least, there are not seperate versions of boot camp for boys and girls. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

And in a few of these, for example the Chinese and Korean ladies, they sure look like they mean business (not to discount the Iranian lasses, they just scare me). Granted, in the snowy Ukrainian photo, they look like they're giggling, but women giggle to get you off your guard, trust me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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South Korea even has an elite special forces unit with a small number of female operatives, and they are apparently pretty bad-***, seeing as how they train with Delta Force and SAS, among other elite units.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/707th_Special_Mission_Unit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBfadCHaZIE

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You'll never find a more appropriate moment of the discussion to say "Make Love Not War" than now ^_^

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Yes, I served long ago, 10 years ago actually. I was supposed to serve six years as part of an academic program, but there was a time when after three years one could choose not to continue (apparently hi-tech industry was at a low and tech units in the army were more attractive or some such). I made my choice and haven't regretted it since. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Ahh, that was some time ago. It's before they started giving academic officers free funding/scholarship for their degree (today in case you don't know, atudaim get the bachelor for free, and some even get the masters for free!).
Of course today those academic officers have very hard time getting out of the army before the 6 year period ends. I certainly know some who've been trying for years http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif


Anyway, I'm not saying that all girls in the army are always harmless (just mostly harmless http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif). But that most girls are. Most of the females in world armies serve non-combat roles. There are few women in modern western nations that are capable of being the equal of males in soldiery (they lack physical and psychological characteristics needed for excelling in it).

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Hey, not fair, this old dog had to pay all the way to masters, cost me a [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon41.gif[/img], then again four months worth of hi-tech compensation more or less make up for said expenses http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Yep, though I've been given the feeling that today's Hi-tech industry doesn't really require academic degrees much. Experience in units such as mamram seem to be enough. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Do you still work in hi-tech? if so which company?