“But Sergeant, it’s so heavy,” said the white, female Army PFC to the black, male SFC, as he lugged a 40-pound UPS she should have been carrying down a flight of stairs as we broke down gear in the early morning hours after an exercise at Fort Campbell. My lasting memory of a enlisted supervisor doing a job the worker bee should have handled. This extends to all based, the field, and downrange deployments around the world. Females in units who can’t carry rucks, change tires, erect shelters, haul Jerry cans, etc. We should be reducing, not increasing, the number of women in the Armed Forces.
Females in units who can’t carry rucks, change tires, erect shelters, haul Jerry cans, etc.
but again, on TV they do all those things without a second thought...something doesn’t jive...