Soldiers in the Met Section do not have what I consider to be a physically demanding job, yet females experience 113% more injuries than compared with their male counterparts. What is going to happen when they are assigned to a Howitzer crew? The HE projectile on a 155mm gun weighs 96 lbs.
Yep, that crossed my mind also, what a fiasco.
I want women be able to self-actualize — I’m sort of an Alan Alda feminist. The military example I look to is the Israeli Defense Force. Now I read they will exclude women from operating tanks for reasons of physiology. Still, 92% of military positions remain open to women.
“What is going to happen when they are assigned to a Howitzer crew? The HE projectile on a 155mm gun weighs 96 lbs.”
As I read many years ago: “A 5’2” 125 lb woman isn’t going to do anything with a 100 lb rucksack except sit on it.”
A study done as part of DACOWITZ in 1991 stated thus:
100 men and 100 women, both groups young & fit, were strength-tested using a standard battery of resistance events.
Conclusion: the ten strongest women were only as strong as the ten weakest men.
BTW, a 105mm HEAT main gun round for the M-60A3 tank takes some heavy lifting too, from the ground to the loader’s hatch. Repeat fifteen times.