Let me guess silverleaf...Chair Force?
Are you seriously arguing that physically demanding ground combat is just a hypothetical?? That lugging 130lb artillery rounds by hand, or carrying/wearing huge loads while being required to move rapidly with crew served weapons while bullets are flying is a myth?
I have some friends I'd love to introduce you to so you can discuss your theories of warfighting.
Unbelievable. That's the kind of ill-informed crap I'd expect to see written in the New Yorker, not Free Republic.
Yeah, what he said.
Women-in-combat is a subversive plan to render the U.S. military combat ineffective so that it become politically impossible to deploy them against any but the weakest of enemies, those who cannot counter our technological advantage and whom we will not have to engage in close combat.
But, hey, it probably won’t be me or anyone I know or care about, so have at it.
“Are you seriously arguing that physically demanding ground combat is just a hypothetical?? That lugging 130lb artillery rounds by hand, or carrying/wearing huge loads while being required to move rapidly with crew served weapons while bullets are flying is a myth?” Spot on! I think alot of the proponents of this madness have never been 11b or 11c MOS where you need all the components of your crew served weapons to be in a certain place at a certain time and ALL components with its crew. What happens when you have humped 12 or more miles and go to set up your mortar and you find out Susie couldn’t make it because she could not carry the Baseplate [or Barrel,Sight,Ammo or any other component of that weapon] or maybe she did make it but now was to tired to dig out a firing pit because she was allowed to pass physical tests that were modified for her gender. That’s when T.S.H.T.F. That’s when your platoon has not only endangered itself but all the other Rifle platoons that are depending on it’s Wpns. Platoon for fire support. In other words having women in positions they should not be in is the weak link in the chain and will cause good men to lose their lives down the road.