Letter: Joni Ernst is not a combat veteran.

[Raine1967]

17. She is a woman. When did the Marines accept Women in

Combat service Support?

Think it was only last year when the Administration said women could serve in combat missions.

Having said that, I don't believe she was a combat veteran. From her wiki page with annotations:

Military career
Ernst is a lieutenant colonel in the logistics branch and currently commands the 185th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion at Camp Dodge, the largest battalion in the Iowa Army National Guard.[10][11] As of 2014, Ernst had served 21 years between the Army Reserve and the National Guard. She spent 14 months in Kuwait in 2003-2004 as a company commander during Operation Iraqi Freedom.[8][12][13] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Ernst

I am not a military person so I may think of combat vets a little differently than those who served.

She is a Vet. I would never diminish that fact.