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Local military say its time to include women in combat
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University of North Georgia Cadets Christie Winterstaff, left, and Alisa Aiken prepare to mount an M-240B machine gun on a tripod during a recent military science lab at the Dahlonega campus. - photo by Tom Reed
Judy Remeik remembers well the attitudes toward women when she served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War in the mid-1960s. "There were some World War II veterans still (in the service) and they did not like women in the military, period," she said. "Things have just turned around," said Remeik, the lone female in Gainesville’s American Legion Paul E. Bolding Post 7.