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April 7, 2009 by Brigitte Pellerin 4 Comments

Let’s take a moment to salute Cmdr. Josée Kurtz, Canada’s first female warship commander.

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  1. Deborah says

    April 7, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    Awesome.

    I think it’s great that there are women on the ships. They keep my husband in line. Ha! Seriously though, some of his best co-workers are women, and that makes me happy.

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  2. grenadier says

    April 7, 2009 at 9:39 pm

    Taliban: put that in your pipe and smoke it!
    My best wishes to Commander Kurtz.

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  3. Bob Devine says

    April 8, 2009 at 1:18 am

    I guess it is a generational thing and it took some serious adjustments for me to get to where I am now with regard to women in the service. That said congratulations to Cmdr. Kurtz. Give em hell.

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  4. Andrea Mrozek says

    April 8, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    Bob:
    I remain conflicted over women in combat alongside men. There, I said it. I don’t want to diminish this woman’s accomplishment, and it also depends on what she has to do for her job–I’m not sure about that. For those who will now throw sexism charges my way, I will add that this has nothing to do with capabilities and whether or not women can do it. Rather, my concerns stem from how men and women interact–in particular in combat. I happen to believe most men have an innate desire to protect women–now how does that play out when the enemy attacks and you are supposed to fight them and not protect the female soldier next to you? And I’ll leave it as a question–I don’t have any research to back this up, just a feeling. I have this sense that a woman in combat has to neutralize her gender–ie women in combat must pretend they aren’t women–and that may not be altogether for the best.

    However, given that no one else appears to share my concern, and given that we have women in the military, under these circumstances I salute this woman, who has risen to the top in what has to be the ultimate in male dominated fields.

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