Technology will help to some extent. E.g. battlefield robots, and exoskeletons may soon enable female soldiers (or Marines) to pack as much gear as their male counterparts.
Great, Million dollar wheel chairs welded to forklifts with little red wagons behind them for the gear instead of soldiers, great idea till the batteries run down.
I think I will bet on the Marines who will get the job done rain or shine, with or without support on Grit and Honor.
“Technology will help to some extent. E.g. battlefield robots, and exoskeletons may soon enable female soldiers (or Marines) to pack as much gear as their male counterparts.”
You’re kidding, right? The cost of that would be?
Also, how many meat-robots can you pack into an APC?
They already pack about twice as many Marines in one of those than they ought. So much so you have to crap and piss in jars inside the APC, in front of your mates.
Combat is hard enough without adding 120 lbs of dead female weight to the squad.
You’re going to bring them back in body bags.
Stupidest idea ever. Ever. Women in combat.
Send them to the CIA, the NSA, or the DIA. Do not, DO NOT send them to the front.