text: why don't women have to register for the draft? women can join the military if they want but they aren't forced to like men.  does the military really not want them? you can say that.  if the truth were to come out, women, for the most part, are a pain the the as*s for the military establishment. in administrative rolls, they do fine and are extremely efficient.  as combatants they are high maintenance and unreliable.  oh, there are exceptions to that rule, but watch the eyes glaze over on any platoon sergeant when you announce to him that he will have women in his platoon. unfortunately for the military, it has become the dumping ground for every politically correct or set aside program adopted by the government.  it has no choice but to do as the dumb as*s politicians want because the spineless generals still don't know how to stand up to as*sholes like donald rumsfeld. i often wonder what the outcome would have been if rumsfeld tried to push his meely mouthed agenda on someone like george patton.  it's my guess that they would both have to go to the hospital, to get patton's boot out of rumsfeld's as*s.