There used to be an annual team adventure race called “the eco-challenge.” It was a multi-day team race involving all kinds of sports and challenges from rock climbing to jungle trail runs to kayaking, rough water swimming, etc.
Each team (I think of 5 or so as I recall) had to include a female. In the earliest eco-challenges, some winning teams literally CARRIED their “token female” up the hard stuff that they could not negotiate. Literally carried them.
What sane nation would put women into combat, when 99% of its combat-age men are at home?
My post #78 and your post... this is what I would fear if I were a male soldier or Marine readying for battle.
“There used to be an annual team adventure race called “the eco-challenge.” It was a multi-day team race involving all kinds of sports and challenges from rock climbing to jungle trail runs to kayaking, rough water swimming, etc.
Each team (I think of 5 or so as I recall) had to include a female. In the earliest eco-challenges, some winning teams literally CARRIED their “token female” up the hard stuff that they could not negotiate. Literally carried them.”
I have nick named many of my female relatives and my wife’s female relatives as sturdy women, and that includes my wife.
However, there are limits to what even these sturdy women can do, and the old standards of the Marines, combat army and Seals/UDTs would have eliminated these sturdy women in my family from serving in those groups.