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Originally Posted by Happy Times
Im my experience over 90% women cant cut it in the infantry, other combat roles are possible.
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I agree that Infantry would be the toughest for women to handle. Carrying a 100lb rucksack, or a 200lb casualty, for any distance is beyond most womens capabilities. Beyond a fair amount of mens as well.
However if a women can handle that, all other considerations, affecting morale, being raped if captured, etc aren't valid reasons to prevent them from serving.
My only concern is that physical standards always end up getting lowered because somebody doesn't like the higher washout rate of females who can't hack it.