Guys who were Marines in WW II...landed on beaches with eighty pounds of gear. For four to six weeks...they’d hike around and launch fire-fights with the Japanese. No one showered. You might have changed socks maybe once a week, but it was harsh living conditions. After a month of this....if you were lucky...the fight was done, and you recovered back at the Navy vessel for the first shower in four weeks. If you can find one young lass out of a thousand able to tote the hundred pounds of gear and live harshly for a month like that....fine. My humble guess is that she’ll weigh 200 pounds and be tossed out shortly for being overweight by Marine standards.
I agree. What is also infuriating with this whole idea is that women in the military can help (even if they aren’t on the front lines). I am not saying it is equal help. I am saying that you still need doctors, nurses, dentists, and folks to keep all the paperwork. Those jobs DO help.. it may be very different than front lines, but the military (at least how I see it) has many specialities/needs that require people not on the front lines. As a Mom to 2 girls.. I can honestly say that I never had that type of upper body strength nor do all the women I know. Yeah.. are some fit and can run? Sure.. but fighting on the front lines isn’t working out in a gym. This will destroy the military IMHO.