[familyop]

Many of our specialties designated as “combat” aren’t really battle focused, and many soldiers in such specialties would be with infantry units, technically, but in main battle areas (today’s rear). There are many paradoxes and contradictions in terminology. Today, from some of the terminology and schools (e.g., airborne), a woman can look like a rough, tough soldier, word wise. She can incur quite a bit of physical and psychological damage from social interactions, too.

Our military forces are a bloated, sick mess compared to what they could be under leaders like those of the early 1950s and before.

[SoCal Pubbie]

That may be so, but the IDF has female ground pounders among their ranks, for better or worse.

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2018/0208/Why-mixed-gender-combat-units-are-on-the-rise-in-Israel

This from a month ago!

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Female-combat-soldiers-in-light-infantry-units-to-be-exempt-from-reserves-603959

77% of this combat battalion are female:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracal_Battalion

I am NOT in favor of this but one simply can no longer use the IDF as an example of a military force of all male foot soldiers.