Parity between the genders in warfare is coming to the U.S. military.
According to senior U.S. Department of Defense officials in Washington D.C., Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is lifting the 1994 ban on allowing women to serve in combat. The move, announced Wednesday, covers allowing female soldiers to serve in ground combat units and even in elite commando squads. This is great news for those advocating equality in the nation's armed forces, but not so much for those who believe in traditional gender roles. Which got Patch thinking: Parsippany is a mix of old-school beliefs and modern memes. Women serve in important roles in area businesses and at Town Hall. Yet the township still holds the distinction of having the only New Jersey Sons of Italy chapter that bars women from membership. So what do you think, …
Morristown Medical Center donating 20 minutes of call time to a soldier for every whole blood and platelet donation.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Are you interested in helping the community by giving blood? Interested in helping a soldier fighting overseas stay in touch with family? Both? Morristown Medical Center would like to see you. The hospital's Blood Donor Services currently is running a promotion–called "Operation Phone Home"–where for every whole blood or platelet donation they receive, a soldier from Fort Dix will receive 20 additional minutes of free phone card time, which they can use to call home. The promotion runs through July. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 973-971-7444 or visit the Blood Donor Services website.
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Reality Checker
3:18 pm on Friday, January 25, 2013
He just said -- not at all -- as not in agreement with the proposal on putting women in combat. How quickly we forget when women are taken captive in foreign conflicts what typically happens to them especially in countries that despise Americans and where rape and murder and considered accepted practices in those societies. Also foreign countries exploit the emotions of those back in the US when … more ›