Women in the Military — The Biblical View - The Most Feminist Army: US and Australia

.... today we're going to talk a little bit about some of the things that are afflicting our nation. Feminism is really infecting our nation, and I would say homosexuality. Feminism and homosexuality seem to have some common roots. I'm not exactly sure I've got this nailed down, Bill, but does appear that the abandonment of gender roles as established by Scripture is tied into the abandonment of biblical sexual orientation as well as biblical gender roles as established by the Creator Himself.

So the minute you start seeing gender roles fall apart, you begin to see sexual orientation fall apart, and then you get this gender confusion that steps in as well. So all of these things tend to be all tied together, and I guess it's all tied together by what I would say is autonomy. The idea that man is going to determine his own ethics, his own gender, his own everything, sexuality, you name it. It's just basically man saying, I'm not going to submit to God's order. in any way, shape, or form. It's a rebellion against God. Shaking his fist and saying, you don't define me, I define me. Exactly. I define me, I define my gender, I define my ethics, and God, you just take off, and I'm not subject to your judgment from here on out. Like, that's gonna work.

Right. Even among Christians, with students and with adults, you see, yes, I know that's what the Bible says, but I think You know, I believe. And when we say autonomy, we're talking anarchy. We're effectively saying, we're not going to submit ourselves to the laws of God, and we are going to be a law unto ourselves. And when everybody does that, whether it be the ruling class as well as the mob on the street, you've got guys in political leadership saying, I'm going to do whatever I want to do. You've got people on the street going, I'm going to do whatever I want to do. Basically, it's people doing whatever they want in their own eyes. It's anarchy. It's the period of the judges. Isn't that what every man did that was right in his own eyes?

Okay, so there's quite a bit of anarchy on the streets these days. It seems the President of the United States is concerned with Washington DC. Did you notice that recently? He's like, I'm taking over. Did that shock you? Well, he has the constitutional authority to do that. He does. And it's created quite a firestorm. Yes, it has. People are going, oh, he can't do that. Yes, he can, because it's D.C. It's the District of Columbia, and it's under his jurisdiction.

Okay, now I was a little surprised at how lesbians are increasingly ruling the blue cities now. Chicago, San Antonio, Madison, Wisconsin, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Portland, at least Oregon, the governor of Oregon, and now Washington, D.C.' 's mayor is a lesbian, or I guess a bisexual lesbian, whatever that means. I'm not gonna get into the details here. Perverted. Effectively, yes. And she has appointed a female police chief. So you've got a lesbian, bisexual, whatever, ruling the city of Washington, D.C., and her appointee, I don't know if her appointee is a lesbian or not. Well, her appointee was previously the director of the DEI, okay? Diversity, equity, and inclusion. Yes, for the city. And she was recently asked, you know, what's the chain of command? And she did not understand the question. And as a result, the mayor had to step in and answer the question. For her. Okay. So these are the people ruling the cities. Not necessarily in good hands. It's a good argument to move to the country. I know. It may be. Move out of Washington, D.C. Chicago, San Antonio. Get out of Madison, Wisconsin, Seattle, Salt Lake City.

Surprising number of lesbians also have served as police chiefs in major cities. Now, I don't know about Washington, D.C., but most definitely Washington, D.C.' 's mayor has signed up for the LGBTQ position. And here are some of the lesbian police chiefs across the country. over the last few years, okay? Minneapolis, Atlanta, San Francisco, Tampa, and also Los Angeles' fire chief. Remember the one who came under fire because of all the fires earlier in the year? Was that a pun? She came under fire because of the fires? Because of all the fires in Los Angeles. Remember that? Yes. She's a lesbian too.

So all these lesbians are running the big cities and it just seems like it's out of control. You know, I mean, right now, there are people like President Trump who are looking into Washington, D.C. And by the way, he said the same thing about Los Angeles. He says, you guys are out of control. What is this? You've got mayors, you've got police chiefs, you've got fire chiefs, they're lesbians.

Now, here's my point. You've got anarchy in the streets. No surprise that there's sexual anarchy going on with the leadership of these major cities. You've got sexual anarchy in the bedroom. and other forms of anarchy spreading out into the streets, what's the deal? Does anybody put this together? Does anybody realize that if you've got anarchy in the bedroom on the part of the leading mayors, police chiefs, et cetera, these are the people who are supposed to be in charge of the civil magistrate to deal with the evildoers.

I mean, do you understand what the civil magistrate is there for? I mean, you lecture on this every other day. And you know the reason for them being there is to go after the evildoer, but what if they're the evildoers? What if the evildoers become the police chiefs? What if the evildoers those that express anarchy in the bedroom are now I guess you'd call it the fox in the hen house. Now they're the police chiefs of major cities across this country. Is there any question in your mind why they may be incompetent at going after the evil doers and they themselves may be contributing something to the anarchy on the streets? Are you putting this together?

Woe to them who call good evil and evil good. That's the problem we have. And as you pointed out, the jurisdiction of the state is to further good and punish or avenge evil. You reward good behavior with liberty. Now we're familiar with what punishment is because punishing evil means you suppress it. That's all that government does. It doesn't change hearts. It just suppresses evildoing and punishes evildoing.

So what happens, what is a Christian to do, as you've pointed out, when evil seems to be winning, when those who are in charge begin to further evil and punish good behavior? Yeah, what happens then? Anarchy. Anarchy. Right. A dissolution of the governments themselves. And that will lead to tyranny unless Christians begin to fall on their faces, churches begin to seek God's grace again, and pledge to teach their congregants and their congregation, and thus the culture, what good government is supposed to be.

Now go back to the 1950s or 1960s. Not that many lesbians leading the police department in Atlanta or Chicago. I would say zero. Yeah, zero, exactly. You're looking at the breakdown of empires for my friends. And don't forget that it was Bagoas who brought Darius III down in Persia and this might have been the demise of Alexander the Great because there's the Begois-Darius III connection. I don't want to talk about the sexual craziness that was going on but Begois was very much involved in the breaking down of the Persian Empire as well as Alexander the Great. Remember Alexander the Great didn't really survive very long.

So if you want to know what was it that brought down the Greeks? What was it that brought down Persia? Persia was actually doing kind of okay, but picked up some bad habits from the Greeks. Do I need to explain? Okay. This is the stuff that brings down empires, friends. I just want everybody to understand, what is it that brings down empires? What would it be? Well, if you're a student of history, it helps. I encourage you to read history. You can read about some of it from Taking the World for Jesus and Preparing the World for Jesus. That's our second book. Preparing the World for Jesus has a story of what happened to Persia and what happened to Greece. And you need to know that it was this rise of homosexuality that had a huge impact upon the anarchy that broke apart the Persian governments and effectively brought Alexander down as well. Well, this is the stuff that brings empires down.

By the time it makes to high ranking officials like the Treasury Department head of the United States of America or the mayor of the large cities. Then you know you're in trouble.

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We are back on the Generations Broadcast. This is Kevin Swanson, Bill Jackins studio. A Fox News story caught my attention this week. You saw it. And it was like, good news, great news, guys. Women recruitment in the all branches armed forces up in fiscal year 2025. It's exciting, Bill. Women recruitment in all the branches of the armed forces way up in fiscal year 2025. Time to celebrate. Break out the champagne. Big stuff happening. Women are signing up for our armed forces under Hegseth. They have reached their goal, overall goal of 61,000, I think it is, new recruits. And that's within just a few months. It's not the full year yet. But the interesting stat is that among those recruits, you have an increased number of women volunteering to serve in the military. And according to these stats, yeah, you have 7,260 more women enlisted this year up to this point than did the previous year. And so 24,000 this year, 16,700 last year. Let me quickly do the math here, minus 17.5 equals 6.5. over 17.5. Okay. Sorry guys. 37% increase over last year. Women are rushing into the armed forces. Good news, my friends, Fox News is excited. Hegseth, I don't know if he's celebrating this, I kind of doubt it, but 37% increase on women participating in military, at least signing up over last year. 23,000 thus far this year.

And the history of this goes back, let me do a little bit of history on this. Women in the military is something that was not really brought back into the modern world until the Soviets showed up. Now, for a long period of time, the world brought women into the military, except for the fact that the Jews forbade it in Deuteronomy 20. But Adamnon was an important abbot of Iona way back in 700 AD. He served as an early church historian. In his writings, we learn that unbelieving pagan tribes would send their women to the front line of combat. Often the woman would carry a baby with her, and if she hesitated at all, her husband would flog her from behind. A dominant of Iona personally witnessed the mangled bodies of dead women warriors on the battlefield. One medieval source records that he saw nothing more touching and pitiful than the head of a woman in one place, the body in another, and her little babe upon the breasts, a stream of milk upon one of its cheeks, and a stream of blood upon the other." Okay? So this is the kind of thing that irritates real Christians. Yes. And you would say rightly so. Yes.

And you must understand that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has pushed back against women in combat roles, and he actually fired former Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Lisa Franchetti without giving a reason. Yes, exactly. So God used this great Christian leader, Adamnon, and this is AD 700. To draft a legal edict known as the Law of the Innocents in which he obtained 91 signatories from tribal leaders throughout the British Isles. And the law required a fine of anyone who would employ a woman in an assault or a host or fight. Now sadly, the modern world reverted back to this about 1,200 years later. Thankfully, we went through a Christian age over about a thousand years. Now whether or not this Christian age will extend, it's hard to say. But at the very least, we can say for the Gentile European world, we went through something about a millennium of Christian influence in the world, which is really a refreshing visit of good things that happened in the world until the humanists showed up, until the Christian Gentiles apostatized, which has happened over the last hundred years or so.

The Soviets were the first to do it. So just a little bit of a history here. I've done a little bit of research on this for my new book, Under God, with liberty and justice for every nation. The Soviets and atheistic communists were the first to legalize abortion. They advocated homosexuality for the first time. And they introduced women into combat. So these are the three things that Soviets did. Now, if you think about the Soviets, what are you thinking? The Bolsheviks, the Soviets, you're thinking to yourself. Atheism. Atheism, right? Right. So this is what atheists do. They like to kill babies, they pervert sexuality, and they want to shove women back into combat. These are the three things they love to do most. The USSR deployed women for snipers, pilots, and armor regiments in World War II. And then it caught on with the rest of the Western world with Norway introducing women to combat in 1985. Norway in 1985, Canada in 1989, Germany in 2000, Australia in 2013, the UK in 2016 and the US in 2016.

Now God's law specifically assigns the role of fighting wars to men. Women are meant to be life givers, not life takers. Men are intended to defend their women and children.

One of the things that bothers me a little bit is that there's no question, women are signing up to the military at a faster rate than they were last year and displacing men who should be signing up. Now, I guess at this point, I'm not saying that women shouldn't be involved in some medical work and things like that. I'm okay with that. I'm just looking at the overall percentages.

America is the second highest in the world, second to Australia and Israel. We don't have the firm Israel numbers in front of us, but Australia is number one at 21%. America is number two at 18%. And according to these stats, heading towards 25%, according to stats I just looked at, with the women signing up on a headset. They're so excited to be serving in military. And by the way, they're not all going to be nurses. We're looking at a very large number of women stepping in saying, we're going to fight these wars.

And I would say men should do this. men should sign up. I'm not opposed to a percent or two of women signing up and saying, hey, we want, we can, you know, work some of these medical things or maybe some administrative stuff or something. Yeah, I'm okay with some of that. But, but Bill, I mean, in 1970, 4% of the American armed forces were women. This year, 18 or last year, 18%. This year we're heading towards 25%. So what does that tell you? It tells you that men are not signing up. That's the issue.

Now, if you look at Nehemiah 4.14, you find that, you know, they had some threats, military threats. They were rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. That's what Nehemiah was doing. And so, as they were rebuilding the walls, these Sanballats and Tobiases, you know, the naysayers and the whoever they were. They were threatening the people. And so this is what Nehemiah said. He turned to the leaders and to the rest of the people, and this is what he said. Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

Now does that sound like putting women into combat to you? And they carried bricks with one hand and swords with the other. They built where they could, they battled where they had to.

And then we have Deuteronomy 20 verses 5-7 where you bring everybody in, and by the way, there isn't a biblical law in just war theory as derived from scripture. I have a whole section on this in my new book. There's not a straight draft. There's an option. And the option is, okay, first of all, if you're a wimp, if you lack courage and you don't want to fight, you don't have to fight. Yeah, because you're going to be a negative to the rest of the platoon. Okay, so here's what they say. What man is there who's built a new house, not dedicated it? Go return to your house, lest you die in battle, another man dedicate it. And what man is there who is betrothed to a woman and has not married her, let him go and return to his house, lest he die in battle and another man marry her.

So what is the Bible saying here about women in combat? Women are not in combat. It's a big fat no. Yeah. I mean, even here, if a man who's newly married, they're not gonna, why wouldn't they do that? Well, I think the answer is easy. They don't want to disappoint her. They just got married. Who wants your husband to die a year into your marriage or six months into your marriage?

So the Western nations increasingly favor feminism and the incorporation of women and homosexuals into combat. So that's what has happened increasingly. As I said, in 1970, 4% of the military were women. In present day, it's 17.7%. And America is number two. France comes in number three. Canada is number four, the fourth most feminist nation, according to this metric. Germany is number five at 13.6%. Spain is number six at 13.2%. Poland is 13. United Kingdom is 12. Japan is nine. South Korea nine. Italy eight. These are all Western nations. These are all the guys on our side.

Now, Women in active duty military, these are women in active duty military, the stats I'm trying to give here. On the eastern side of things, for India, it's 0.7%. For Russia, it's 4%. Indonesia is 2%. Pakistan's 0.6%. Iran is negligible. And China is 5%. So the new axis, as we've talked about, the new axis, I'm working an average here, about 2.2%. And my guess is they're probably mostly in a capacity of nurses, administrative, etc. But not so for Western nations.

Now this does not bode well for Western nations, Bill. We're not doing well on these metrics. Average Western nations upwards of 14, 15, 16%. For Eastern nations, 2.5%. So that's the difference. Pretty significant difference.

Now, Hegseth has said women will have access to ground combat roles, given the standards remain high. That's a quote he gave to a senator at the confirmation hearings. He said, quote, women will have access to ground combat roles, given the standards remain high. But this is what Hegeseth is doing. He's upping the standards. Right. He's establishing standards. I think what we're saying is politically he's doing everything he can possibly do to keep them out of combat. Do you see what he's saying here? Right. And it's interesting because there is an article from a military publication back in April, and it seems to criticize Hegseth's position, you know, and talks about how women have always been in combat and how women have served in combat. And yet it talks about how Hegseth has ordered the military to reexamine the standards under which women have gained entry into combat roles.

Yeah, he's working the standards. He's working the standards, he's resetting the standards, rebuilding the foundations of what should be a strong military.

So here we are friends, 6.3% of the US military is LGBTQ. We're working towards 25% women in the military. Add to that 6.3%, you're at 31% of our military, homosexuals and women. Will homosexuality and feminism preserve a nation or eventually unravel a nation in its military.

Now, here's why it's important in the military. Because the military, as I see it, is the last guard. It's the last battalion. It's the last battle line to preserve a nation from complete immolation. There's nothing more in the way. The military has always been the most conservative part of a society or a nation that can kind of keep some order going, but by the time you've allowed the feminists and the homosexuals to rush in and do what they do best, History does not bode well for the side of homosexuality and feminism. History is more on the side of China, Iran, and Russia at this point, until the West repents. That's where we are right now.

Now, in terms of repentance, how do you address something like this? Bill, I honestly think Hexeth can't quite fix this. Why are the women rushing in? Why are the men not showing up? there's something more fundamental. And we need to keep coming back to the root issue. And I believe it has everything to do with the fact that men aren't raised to be men and women aren't raised to be women. It has everything to do with our churches, our families, the divorce rate, the breakdown of the nuclear family, the, you know, 57% of kids born to single moms, How do you restore a nation unless you restore manhood, fatherhood, and moms, stay-at-home moms that are raising their kids?

This is something that occurred to me recently. I've seen my daughters just investing big time into the little guys. You know, they have three or four little guys. I think to myself, if they didn't put thousands of hours into these little guys. And you take these little guys, two, three, four years of age, you place them into a daycare with 32, and it's chaos, it's anarchy. But the thousands of hours of training, it's amazing how much work they put in these little guys. Latchkey doesn't work, Bill. Latchkey doesn't work. I'm telling you. We see that in DC. You have an extremely high number of fatherless boys who are running amok. They're running rampant. And so there is internal terrorism that we're facing. It is not brought into the culture from other countries. It is inculcated here by the lack of a father figure. Big time. And that certainly applies in the big cities. Yes. Yeah. In some of these big cities, it's 75, 80% of little guys raised without fathers.

Okay. My friends, um, how do we put this together? Um, I come up with one word and I think this applies to pretty much everything we've ever attempted to do to rebuild the foundations. And I got a brand new book just out taught off the press. can feel it. It's hot off the press right now. It's called Strong, Stand Firm, Be Courageous, Strengthen What Remains. In this book now available at generations.org. We got to boil it down to what is it? Some of us are simple minded. We say, okay, don't make it too complicated for me. What do we need? Stronger men, stronger foundations, worldview foundations, lots of rebar banged into the foundation. I need an amen right now from the worldview guy. Amen. Thank you. Stronger foundations. Stronger worldview. Stronger faith. Stronger gospel. Stronger Jesus. Stronger men. Stronger ministry. Stronger everything. We need strong.

Here's the way I talk about it. This book is not for those who see no urgent need for the revival of the Christian church in this age. For any, though, who suffer from a chronic, relentless anguish and stabbing heartache over a sick and dying church within any and all Christian communions, these words will be received as a welcome tonic. Here is one more cry in the wilderness, an urgent appeal, a burden of prayer, a call, one simple thesis. Stronger. The antidote for the gelatinization of the evangelical faith is strong foundations, strong men of God, a strong gospel, a strong faith, a strong savior, strong grace, strong salt, strong doctrinal base, strong ministry, strong affection, strong in the fire, strong against strongholds. That's the book Strong, available now at Okay. Friends, you've been listening to Generations. Get your strong stuff at generations.org. This is Kevin Swanson inviting you back again next time as we continue to lay down a vision for the next generation.

https://cloud.sermonaudio.com/media/sermontranscript/high/81825457325368.transcript?ts=1769756272&download=true

If we don’t count North Korea, Israel is #1 for women in the military. The U.S. and Australia rank high, but aren’t #1 and #2.

https://seasia.co/2025/08/06/10-countries-with-the-most-women-serving-in-the-military

There are big differences in how women are treated in the Israeli Defense Force that we should consider.

1. Being a mother gets an exemption from the draft and, so, early marriage and having children are encouraged. This is counter-intuitive, isn’t it? Most social conservatives think women in the military hurts family formation. Jewish Israelis have one of the highest, if not the highest rate of child birth in advanced countries (and higher than Arab Israelis who, being Arab, aren’t subject to the draft).

2. Women aren’t assigned to units where they would be a conspicuous minority. Technically, women could be assigned to any unit; e.g., field artillery (where you have to manhandle large and heavy munitions)(a salute to the Red Legs from a ground pounder). But, since not many women qualify, the IDF assigns women who desire a combat arms slot, to select combat arms where they are a good portion of the slots. This policy addresses another concern of social conservatives: sexual harassment, sexual assault, fraternization in general, and adultery, resulting from a small numbers of women - what I call ‘a conspicuous minority’ - in units.

After 9/11 black and female enlistment and reenlistment went down.
Women see the military as a safe place to express their feminist or modern female selves and as a good career, and their existence within the military will always be to make it safer, easier, more comfortable, more accommodating, less aggressive and masculine, less risky and adventurous, with easier standards and easier courses with less emphasis or elimination of hard things like throwing heavy hand grenades, digging 6 foot holes in the ground, carrying heavy stuff when hiking, with better pay and better benefits, basically morphing it into just another federal job with great pay and benefits and less of the hard edged soldiering and sailoring that is required to crush the enemy men and win wars.

This is bloated writing and could be trimmed way, way, way down.

True, but it is a transcript. Sorry for not mentioning this. Si I asked perplexity.ai

Here is a concise “Reader’s Digest” summary of the linked Free Republic post (a transcript from a Generations Radio broadcast by Kevin Swanson, Aug 18, 2025):
Core thesis
Swanson argues that the rise of feminism, LGBTQ acceptance, and women in combat roles in Western militaries reflects a broader rebellion against biblically defined gender roles and sexual ethics, which he ties to societal decay and the weakening of nations.
Main points
Gender/sexual “anarchy”: He links the breakdown of biblical gender roles to confusion over sexuality and gender identity, calling it autonomy and rebellion against God’s order.
Leadership concerns: He highlights several major U.S. cities whose mayors, police chiefs, or fire chiefs are openly lesbian or LGBTQ-affirming, suggesting this correlates with urban disorder and incompetence.
Women in the military: He notes a sharp increase in female military recruitment (from ~4% in 1970 to ~18% recently, possibly heading toward 25%), and claims America and Australia now have the highest percentages of women in active duty among major nations.
Historical/biblical argument: He contends that Scripture assigns combat to men (citing Deuteronomy 20 and Nehemiah 4), and that women are “life-givers, not life-takers.” He praises early Christian influence (e.g., Adamnán’s “Law of the Innocents,” c. AD 700) that discouraged using women in combat.
Soviet origin claim: He asserts that atheist communists (the Soviets) were first to legalize abortion, promote homosexuality, and deploy women in combat, and that the West later followed.
Cultural comparison: He contrasts Western nations (high female participation in the military) with Eastern nations like Russia, China, Iran, India, etc. (low female participation), implying the latter are currently more aligned with “natural” or biblical order.
Pete Hegseth’s role: He commends then–Defense Secretary Hegseth for raising standards and reexamining women’s access to combat roles as a way to limit female participation without explicitly banning it.
Root problem: He argues the deeper issue is the collapse of the nuclear family, fatherlessness, and churches failing to raise men and women according to biblical roles. His proposed remedy is “stronger” foundations: stronger men, families, churches, doctrine, and gospel.
Tone and conclusion
The broadcast is polemical and culturally conservative, framing current trends as signs of national decline and calling for repentance, family restoration, and a reassertion of traditional Christian gender roles as the path to national strength.
If you’d like, I can also produce an even shorter 5-bullet version for quick posting.

This is the letter I send annually to about 40 papers and commentators.

The Tragedy of Social Engineering Combat

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plans to set unified combat standards for men and women. This step would reverse Obama’s defense department announcement on December 3, 2015, which meant regimental combat teams and special forces units became bureaucratic toys for those imagining equal opportunity and affirmative action could coexist with warriors enduring the brutality imperative for victory.

Combat operations often require the most severe restrictions on human emotions and behaviors to foster the uniquely understood high morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion. Human sexual diversity cannot intrude into this authoritarian meritocracy where only those displaying the greatest savagely can win.

At the point of collision, our troops face situations requiring exceptional physical capabilities and unbelievably sacrificial, primitive, and intimate relations. They continuously face extraordinary stress punctuated by killing other humans within inherently chaotic and brittle environments.

Of special consideration is the understanding national defense through combat operations becomes the ultimate Olympics. Therefore, much less excuse obtains for merging men with women into this hideous ordeal than exists for combining the Olympic athletic competitions every four years. Certainly, the controversy over transgender females competing in women’s sports makes that point obvious.

Look at the ribbons of this current array of generals and admirals and you will see institutional memories no longer exist for fighting ferocious, shrewd enemies such as Germans, Japanese, Chinese, and North Vietnamese, who utilized a full array of modern weapons.

That is a good piece, but civilians and even many vets don’t know the details of this stuff, and the part about the intangibles of male bonding and male competition, and male dynamics of leadership and team identity, and their ability to coordinate within a group, and their capacity for dealing out violence on the world in front of them, and so on, are never discussed, and isn’t that really the foundation of war and warriors?

Voters don’t realize how much destruction females have done to the military, jump school became easy, the Marine Officer course lowered or eliminated parts of the process to allow women, the same with Special Forces, the same with military branches and units all across the board, the injury rates and pensions are a disaster due to the female body not being created to handle even the simple march without getting pelvic fractures, and their entire body is not built for the packs and gear, and physical demands, they can’t even throw grenades or dig foxholes.

Voters aren’t aware of the waste of training female officers allowed to replace the males, and then them not reenlisting once they get the recognition they wanted, they take away slots from men for various combat enhancing courses, and of course collect lifetime pensions due to their young woman injuries of trying to do what the males take for granted.

Here’s the long and short of it.

Testosterone is an extremely powerful drug, especially when administered during the developmental years. By the time a boy’s chin sprouts his first whisker, he already as received enough endogenous testosterone to make his cardiovascular system and musculoskeletal system significantly more massive, more powerful and more durable than the average woman’s will ever be. Similarly, he is significantly more powerful, more rugged, and has better endurance than the the typical woman.

So women simply cannot haul the freight like a man can. And if you paid the same dollar for a woman service member as for a man, you’d be making a bad bargain. However, women don’t cost the same as men, they’re significantly more expensive.

Their medical care costs twice as much. The quartermaster has to stock garments and feminine hygiene product on their behalf that the men have no use for.

Plus special accommodations are made for their anatomical differences. Women have a sex organ that is more prone to medical conditions related to lack of hygiene so, in the army, when deployed to the field, women have to be given opportunity to shower at least every other day. Men can (and do) go weeks without showering with no such risk.

Also, woman’s urethra is much shorter than a man’s, putting them at far greater risk of urinary tract infections if the lower body is exposed to damp conditions for too long. So if you have to send somebody to traipse across a waist-deep swamp, you send the soldiers with the long urethra.

Plus there is only one self-inflicted medical condition for which a service member can receive an Honorable Discharge: pregnancy. Enlist and decide you don’t like it? Get pregnant and Bob’s your uncle.

And there’s one thing nobody talks about any more because it’s been so long since any country lost its sovereignty because it lost a war, but that doesn’t mean there will never be another. If you’re fighting for your national survival, men are the more expendable sex because repopulation needs all the mothers it can get, and men need not apply.

Germany lost ~46% of its male population in WWII. If half of them had been women, their recovery from the war would have decidedly slower.

About 0.14% of American service members killed in WWII were women. 2.8% of those women were killed by direct enemy action. And it bears mention that in WWII there were NO WOMEN in combat roles.

We keep women out of the fighting as a matter of survival.

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