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Article: Our men will stop fighting if women get wounded; A CONTROVERSIAL VIEW ON FEMALES AT WAR BY GEN. SIR CHARLES GUTHRIE.(Features)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 14, 2001
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Byline: GEN. SIR CHARLES GUTHRIE
DEFENCE chiefs are unanimously against women going into deadly frontline combat, Britain's top soldier has revealed.
In an exclusive interview with The Mirror, outgoing Chief of Defence Staff General Sir Charles Guthrie gave his sharpest warning yet against the controversial plan.
SAS veteran Sir Charles, who retires at midnight tomorrow after 44 years in the Army, admitted for the first time his view is shared by all the defence chiefs.
The powerful thumbs down from the Army, Navy and Air Force top brass ...