I suppose if they were actually deployed to the theater, the odds would be different. But they literally don't get within miles of the enemy so it's pretty hard for the enemy to kill them. Yes, there are dangers in a world filled with drones and missiles, but it's not that large.

This article tries to make it sound like it's incredibly unsafe for women to be in the army. But if you dig a bit to get to the statistics (and if we use actual percentages, not "per 100,000" in an attempt to make the numbers seem bigger), the death by homicide rate is .0046% for women in the army, .0034% for men in the army (barely lower than women), and .0023% for women nationally in the US (again, barely lower than army members whether men or women).

These are tiny numbers. Those deaths are certainly tragic, and I wish fervently for the perpetrators to be held to account, but I think it's incredibly irresponsible for journalists to try to sensationalize this as a major problem for the army when the data shows that it is not. A woman is incredibly unlikely to be murdered if she joins the army, just as she would be if she didn't join.