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Summary Of All Guts, No Glory By Molly Ginty

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In the feature article “All Guts, No Glory”, I agree with the author Molly M. Ginty, that women participating in combat. If I was in the military some of the things that might affect me would be probably because of my gender. First, women would not be put into battle because people think women cannot handle the work or bloodshed. They think women are better off bring a nurse for helping men in battle if they get injured. Second, they think women in combat would be a distraction. Also, that if women were put into battle they would have some interaction with the men or would be fighting. Which I think is untrue; women would not be a distraction. Even men argue with each other at times. Last, it should not matter men or women that in combat. They

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