As a Vietnam-era draftee who hasn't performed so much as a " port arms " or " column left " in nearly 30 years _ and even then grudgingly _ my only personal recollection of women in uniform was of female nurses in Chu Lai.
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:My guess would be that the command " port arms " comes in some way from the French " portez " which means " carry " . ( Or from the English " support " . ) This would be a good question for Wikipedia : Reference _ desk / Language; I will post it there .-- Lph 13 : 38, 24 January 2006 ( UTC)
