and about 1/3 of those troops were women and we did just fine. I don’t know how you could have missed that. The MOS that were/are restricted to males is failry small in the overall military.
The “ship has sailed” regarding women serving in the US military, and it is not going back to port. The way large scale military operations are now planned and waged, the technology we use, is unisex based on brains, fitness and will to serve. Yeah we still have the big OPlans for invasions and amphibious landings etc. But as we showed in DESERT STORM and again in 2003 and after, we don’t need an all male force to carry them out.
Nor might I argue do we HAVE the high number of capable males to do so.. Every time I see a teenage kid arguing about his right to be smoking pot I don’t want HIM in my military. Now on that, I am old school
Did my time. Said my piece here. Done.
Bullsh!t, I will never believe that the US military will relegate itself to second class status. The wake up call is coming.
Comparing the number of restricted MOS' is the wrong metric, because some MOS's have a hell of a lot more troops in them. And again, in the case of the Marine Corps, the ground combat arms MOS's are the very core of their mission.
Your "it's not really a big deal argument" is just tunnel vision coming from someone who did not serve in a ground combat MOS.
Betcha I was right on the Chair Force, too. Can always tell a Zoomie.
You just can't tell them much.