"I think we would lose something in our ability to defend our nation if they had to be down in the trenches, fighting hand-to-hand with the enemy........So there should be some sort of a combat exclusion, not based on women`s rights but on the fighting ability of the armed forces.`` General Norman Schwarzkopf, Infantry Officer and Commander of Forces during Desert Storm, testifying before Congress in 1991 about whether Congress should allow women to be assigned to Infantry battalions.
