http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/new..._in_combat.htm More than 200,000 women have served in the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and over 100 have died in Iraq alone. But frontline combat duty, with its risks and rewards, is not officially an option for American women serving in the military. A group of University of Virginia School of Law students, a professor and a graduate want to change that and are aiming to seek out litigants to win women the official right to serve in combat roles — and to qualify for the draft as well. "Our goals are to gain official recognition for those women who have been placed in harm's way in the course of line of duty, and to expose a gender classification that is based on archaic stereotypes and is unconstitutional," said second-year law student Kyle Mallinak. "We don't just have to speculate about how women would perform in combat conditions. We know now that they've performed, and performed well." I really don't like the idea of this. Let the services decide when it should happen.