Back in the day I had a female lance corpuscle doe-eye me before a nasty working party told me not to treat her any different than the male Marines, so I did exactly that.
She found another NCO who was more receptive to her doe-eyed routine and somehow avoided that kind of duty. In a way, I didn’t blame her, any decent Lance Corporal will play any goofy angle to avoid *%$# details.
Human nature dictates that there will always be receptive men, as unfair as that is to the Marines of either sex who refused to play that game.
Had other female Marines who were dedicated and damn good at what they did, but back then they weren’t allowed in the combat arms, and having them in combat service support positions was a novelty.
Finding women to fill infantry billets is a luxury that can be indulged in peacetime, but once the meatgrinder of war starts in earnest again, I wager it will cease.
I hear you. When I was in we had a female attached to our unit. We were doing Mountain and Arctic warfare in north Norway. She was useless, but half the guys flirted with her, and half the guys did not. I treated her as a guy , and she tried her flirty ways to get out of duties, her carrying her weight in her packs. in the end the unit cohesiveness broke down, and we had drama.
I hear all the time how females should be treated as equals, but then it is not about that, it is about the drama they bring.
guys not around women for a couple of months ,and one female then gets attached is never going to work.
I agree, but that is a terrible thing. How many of our men (and those women) will shed blood before someone has the sense to change it? That is awful to consider.