To the comment before it was a horrible inncident i will look back with sadness for the rest of my life. i knew the male and one of the female quite well. I think that no one should be talking about the relationship of any of them! The military is stressful and added all the confusions of a normal teenage life to the mix and you got yourselves a bomb ready to go off. What people here should of been concerned with is what happened prior to the inncident and what could of been done to prevent it. Why he had a weapon in the first place is the question!

Christina, Jufair, Bahrain

Cough cough, say what, Brooks A? First up I think you have reality confused with dogma, and secondly "civilised warfare", who are you kidding. The idea of ANYBODY male or female or combination there of fighting is demeaning to humanity. You would think that after 50,000 years or more, that we would have figured out that war never works in the long run.

Besides, this isn't a war issue, it's a murder. (unless your idea of war is really really warped)

ImFred, Brisbane, Australia

Hey Brooks. Women aren't PUT in the roles of men. Women choose for themselves what they want to do. Nobody sits there and tells them they have to join or they have to do this job. If they don't like what they have to offer then they can turn around and not join. Being a female and a member of the armed forces myself I find it insulting for you to say its demeaning for women to fight like men. If women are tough enough and understand what they are about to get into then I say it's their choice. Maybe if you joined the military you would have a understanding instead of being like rest of american who complain about the war and who protest every day when our soldiers, sailors, marines, airman, and coast guard men and women are dying to protect americans like you. So just think that every morning you wake up and get to do all the things you do and have fun is because of WOMEN and men keeping you safe so terrorists don't come here again and kill anyone else.

j., bremerton, washington

This is an unfortuante act of negligence by the US Military, by given a fire arm to a 20 year old boy, whose hormons must have been running riot, to then go and brutally murder in cold blood - there was obvious relationship connections between the male and one of the female sailors.

My thoughts are with the families, and Im looking forward to an explaination from the US Military.

jo Louise , bahrain ,

Oh I see, Brooks, what we are saying to the ladies is, "don't worry girlies, we men will defend you and look after you so don't you worry your pretty little head about defending yourselves."
Wake up Brooks! History has shown that women have not been protected and indeed more non-combatants died in the last world war than combatants.
Every person has the right to defend themselves no matter who they are.

Peter, Brisbane, Australia

Hey Brooks, I don't live in your bible. This anarchy was caused by a male soldier, who apparently killed innocent people. Amazing how you can pin this on women too. Because we're all Jezabels, right?

Meghan Davis, Anchorage, AK USA

Lady soldiers are a contradictio in terms; ladies are the natural, the Bibllical, inspirqtion and nurturers of mankind. Male hormones demand deference to women, and female hormones most naturally demure to males. Any other artificial ralationship imposed against nature is a perversion bound to fail.

Historically, non-uniformed combatants were given no quarter, as being unlawful combatants who reck the law of war which forbids the slaughter of civilians. Notice that today, everything goes: wars are no longer declared, merely presumed; women are put in the roles of men, and anarchy reigns on the battlefield.

The idea of women fighting like men is demeaning to both males and females, and destructive to civilised warfare, which from the beginning would have given no quarter to non-uniformed partisans, but would have done so after a legitimate Declaration of War, listing the causes & reasons, the objectives, and the conditions for peace.

One perversion after another ...

Brooks A. Batson, Eugene, Oregon