Sum of all these parts....

  I won’t out them here, not full names at least, but I can name four women who I knew personally while I was in the military who were on par with the men at RMC: Tanya, Clare, Evelyn, and Barb. I can remember their names, 30 years out, because these were, and are, really exceptional women. Many of them are still in the ring, holding their own. Given the events of this past weekend, there’s questions about women in a secret service capacity.  Only a few days prior to the current discussion, which was brought on by Trump's assassination attempt,  the House of Representatives passed an updated version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which allows the  U.S.  government to automatically register men ages 18 to 25 into the Selective Service, or draft system. This new version of the bill  opened up the possibility of women being drafted for mandatory military service.  As a Christian… golly, how awkwardly ironic that must seem to the guys I served with, God have mercy… I