Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Should women be recruited as fighter pilot?

To be a fighter pilot requires mental toughness and split second decision making ability. It requires extra ordinary courage and resilience. Though I am not denying women can’t match with men in term of courage and resilience but a fighter pilot is certainly not their cup of tea. Let’s not get sentimental about this issue of gender equality. Women are little emotional and in combat zone you have to be ruthless if it’s required to be so. In advance countries like Israel and US, who are having more advanced air system, they also don’t allow women in combat zone.

If we talk about the combat zone we can’t underestimate the consequences if pilot got caught or if pilots are behind the enemy line. In past we have several incidents where our soldiers were brutally killed by our enemy. We can’t ignore the physical and mental torture, which a soldier has to go through once he caught in the combat zone so we must not expose our women to such brutality and sexual harassment.
The amount of money involved to train a fighter pilot is huge and it requires 13 to 14 year flying service by the pilot to recover that amount. If government is spending such huge money in return it expects some commitment from the pilot as well. In emergency they can’t summon a lady pilot if she is pregnant.

Keeping all the above in mind I feel women shouldn’t be recruited as fighter pilot.

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