I do like a woman in uniform:
Seven hundred female Army troops are testing a new combat uniform for women with shorter sleeves and knee pads in the right place for their generally shorter legs. A committee on women's issues has recommended that flight suits be redesigned for both men and women so it's unnecessary to completely disrobe before urinating. And engineers have been looking at ways to design body armor that better fits the contours of a woman's body.
Some military women are reluctant to embrace changes that would set them apart from their male colleagues, but several former and current military women said the changes certainly beat the consequences of the current one-piece flight suits or being unable to engage in battle or defend themselves because of uncooperative gear.
Note the lack of sublety -- "new combat uniform"; I think I've said it before here, but the debate about women in combat is over.
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I'm looking forward to the camouflage thongs.
I heard from fighter pilots that the first females to use the standard males' flight suit ended in tragedy when they had to eject. Females and Males are built differently and I am sure females do not want to loose anything on top if they have to eject and the same goes for males down below. To have one suit fits all I think is risking a bit too much.