WELL, I GET THAT. But by my count there are only 4 companies out of about 21 in the brigade that even have any female soldiers in them. CPT Patti's Gators and the medical company are going to have the bulk of those.

The entrepreneur in me sees a business opportunity for an enterprising Iraqi to put a lot of muslim women on the payroll as searchers.

"There's no doubt that unrelated men even touching Muslim women is not allowed in our religion. If they really want to respect the Muslim people, they have to use women soldiers to search women." -- Sheikh Muhammad Mahmoud al-Samarayee, a cleric at Baghdad's Imam al-Adham seminary, on incidents of male U.S. soldiers frisking Iraqi women