[KateatRFM]

No YOU are missing the point. I am saying that there ough to be ONE standard and ANYBODY who meets it ought to be accepted and anybody who does NOT meet it ought to be washed out.

I am 100% against a standard for men and a standard for women. ONE STANDARD FOR EVERYBODY.

[DMZFrank]

There WILL NOT be a single standard for men and women because it will have to be lowered to accomadate women. If it is kept high enough to adequately test men than we will not have the numbers of women that Patsy Schroeder types and DACOWITS feel are politically acceptable. This situation with women is largely POLITICAL and NOT impelled by military necessity!!!!

[Mr Rogers]

A man who is five feet nothing and 98 lb. is not superior to a woman who is 5'10" and 165 lb. of solid muscle, merely due to the fact that he has a penis and she has none.

22 years in the military, and I have NEVER met a 5', 98 pound man in the service. My son, an adopted Filipino, is 5'2" - and 160 pounds...he's as wide as he is tall.

I can't recall an 5'10", 165 pound females either...although I'm sure they exist. But they would probably have less upper body strength than a 160 pound man - and in combat, strength is a plus.