I totally agree with you. Women should only be accepted if they can hack it. If they cannot qualify they should be deemed unacceptable. Quotas are the worst. If only one woman qualifies so be it. If none qualify, so be it. Like I said not many women would qualify for what you are describing. The standards should not be lowered. Period.
Hey, short rations for six weeks....sounds like a great diet. Where do I sign-up?
Relax, I am joking. ; )
If they could hack it? Do you think like liberals that humans don’t know anything, that the Army doesn’t know this stuff already?
If s single one makes it? You are going to change everything for her? Have specialized gear and supplies and accommodations and medical personnel just for her? For what, to get the equivalent of a mediocre man?
Removing men soldiers from the military to replace them with females does not HELP the military, it only HURTS it.
When I lived in Minneapolis, the St. Paul Fire Dept, was trying to get it's first female, which shocked me because I thought all of that had been long accomplished, but St. Paul had never changed their standards, hence, no females.
They had a super star this time, a true athlete and super woman, she had trainers, was on a special diet and workouts, the Fire Dept was doing everything to get this Great White Hope across the finish line, she was at her peak, at her best age, everything maximized just for her, if they could capture lightning in a bottle at just the right moment, they would get a fire woman who on her best day barely squeaked by the minimum, in other words, all this was to gain probably the naturally weakest fireman in the cities history.
I thought of our men in Vietnam living on cigarettes and canned peaches, clothes rotting off, 30 pounds lighter since basic, all the things that weaken and drain a young athletic man during sustained living in the jungle in combat, yet they could still do it all, including hauling their wounded.
I couldn't help but think of that female applicant, not sure that she could pass the test at her peak, which already defined her as one of the most inadequate of firemen if hired, but what would that woman be after 10 years of beer and chili dogs, a couple of kids, middle aged spread, being more prone to injuries. She had no reserves of natural man strength, the absolute most we could expect from her would be that 10 years later, she would still be barely adequate.