My high school track coach, who is a retired major from the army special forces, said that women in fact make better snipers than men. Something about being more emotionally detached when making the shot, I can't remember what exactly. On an unrelated subject, he also said they make better fighter pilots because women are smaller, so they fit in the cockpit easier, and are more capable of staying calm in a crisis.
I also read your article in the latest issue of Black Belt. I thought it was a very informative article, and brings up a subject not often discussed. When I did a pistol course up in Alaska, we had a woman who was taking it because a stalker had threatened her, and she decided to do something about it. She said when our instructor, who was male, started giving commands, she froze because it reminded her of her attacker's tone of voice, and she started shaking real bad. But, she was able to overcome, fire, and hit the targets that were set up. At the end of the course she stated how glad she was that she had gone through the flashbacks and the training, because they gave her a better chance of overcoming the situation in the real world. Just thought you folks out there would find this interesting.
Kent
