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Originally Posted by August
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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. |
Thats why we have lowered physical tests in most jobs. They are the same with fighter pilots and SF, i know of one female pilot, and i know that no one has passed SF tests. We had a unofficial ban in the recon unit, we were told that women will not be taken when we were giving our points after basic training. Remember the Israeli study that men could risk their unit and mission if women are on the battlefied?