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As for Ghost Recon 2. . .I completely agree that Socom is more Tom Clancy than Tom Clancy. GR2 is a discrace to Ubi Soft, Redstorm, Tom Clancy, and all their loyal customers. The thing that annoys me the most is the fact that the development team was fully aware of every bug in the game, but pressured by a deadline decided to throw the project onto the shelves half finished, charging up 50 dollars for it. Now they're playing dumb asking everyone to let them know if we find a glitch in the game. You know which direction the enemy is shooting, but you can't tell which team mate is talking to you!? There's hand signals, but the opposing team can't here you speak in your headset when you're close to them, so the hand signals are a useless waste of time and energy that should have went into debugging and testing.

This game has only one thing going for it. Visuals. And even then, frame rates suffer severely in portions of a few maps where It seems I can nearly count each frame by eye. Several unnecessary shapes and faces that could have been removed to improve frame rate efficiency weren't tended to.

The game is clearly unfinished, and I doubt a mere "patch" is going to fix even half of the known illogical discrepencies in the game's design. I have alot of bad things to say, but I'll limit them to this reply and perhaps contribute some more constuctive positive critism at a later date .

Have a good one.

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Women serve in the infantry? Ok...you show me the proof of that and I'll believe it.

GothicSnake,

After about two minutes of Google searching I found, on the very first page of results, three significant articles. One speaks of a Pfc. Valerie Mitchell, 19, "Computer Operator with the

Army's 24th Mechanized Infantry Division". Need more proof? Another reports on Female Losses as a result of combat in Iraq and goes on to say that "it was not until 1948 that Congress allowed them to be full-fledged members of all the military branches." and before which time, "they were largely limited to the Army and to auxiliary jobs as nurses or other medical personnel." This one, found on the Combined Arms Center's website, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas states that "Although 14 percent of the Active Army is comprised of women, females may only serve in combat support and combat service support units." Confirming your claims that females do not serve in combat units, but doing nothing to disprove anything that I have said. The articles are linked in case you feel further reading on the subject is necessary.

The purpose of my original reply was primarily to correct your statement that "women do not serve in the infantry of the United States Army", and I've done this with the proof you that you've requested. From a scientific standpoint regarding a female's physical and psychological capacity during combat, common sense has nothing to do with it. My moral standing on the subject of woman in combat units is appearent and my mention of Congress was merely an example of their capabilities in society. We all have opinions, but they're just that, uneducated opinions. Not even the military has conducted the proper investigation effectively prooving or disprooving a woman's ability to perform. That said, I'd also like to point out that Ghost Recon is based in the future, when woman's service in SF combat units like the "Ghosts" may become an excepted or necessary part of war. In this respect GR2 is accurate. . .plus it's a fictional game and as such should be afforded some leniency in the realism department .

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GothicStrike,

Woman do serve in the US Army Infantry - contrary to your belief that only males are capable and deserve to serve. Woman also serve as members of the US Senate, Congress, as CIA Operatives, FBI agents, NSA employees (worldwide), Naval officers, National Guardsman (which deploy over-seas and fight wars), Marines, members of vairous Special Forces units (which can include the "Ghosts"), and a meriad of other duties in the armed forces. Some of these woman are 18 and 19 years old, and others take care of a Husband and kids. They rank equal to men, which means if you joined the Marines you might just have a femal CO.

The bottom line is that these woman are far more sucessfull in life than any of the civilians here (inluding you), and are more than capable of kicking our asses or taking our lives without effort. Woman have served in the military since the 40's, and there is no sign of them stopping because some ignorant civi like you thinks they have no place defending your life and the lives of millions of others around the world. If you don't believe me you can do the research yourself.

Just thought I'd clear that up for those who are less informed on the way our military works.

Have a good one.