Consider the reality of the process. Many, many people "self select" out - they never try to become special forces. And testing is done by the military even before someone gets a shot at the training. So then, if someone is going through training, that individual is already very likely a bad ass. So it needs to be understood that the attrition rate is from that group, the soldiers who fail, are already at the far end of the bell curve, not people from the GP. The attrition rate for AF Para Rescue is 90%. 9 out of 10 fail.
Women are wired differently than men. That is why colleges must pour funding into something like 5 women's sports for every men's sport in order to attract women into competition. That way they meet title 9 funding requirements and men, who actually want physical competition, are able to participate.
When one considers how small a percentage of MEN are both willing and able to get into special forces it is no mystery why women can't make it. I am not saying it cannot be done. But it will be a very rare and unique woman who has the aggressiveness, attitude and physical toughness to make it through. And it will have to be for the right reasons. Shallow feminist ideals melt away pretty quickly after an hour or two lying in cold surf with a sandy taco at 0200.
Great post. So I hear the Israeli's use women in an intel roll, scouting before an war and interrogation. So if they have special skills in these areas and the Israeli's are smarter than the average bear, why the heck aren't we emulating them w/ the Women's IIF ( intel, interrogation force ) a division of one of our branches? Or does the ghost of Pasty Schorder still haunt all branches never to be exorcised?