I'd more buy the argument that Suzie doesn't have the physical ability to hump an 80 pound ruck than listen to some old fart drone on about women not being fit for combat. I think it's more a threat to their fragile male ego that some woman/girl is giving them orders or disciplining them. Now maybe you good-ol'-boyz don't hang around fire-breathing women because you're view of them is in pink skirts mopping floors and tending babies, but they do exist.
With these kinds of mindsets, it's no wonder sexual harassment is so pervasive in the military.
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