[cherry]

"Here is the test. Put them in their own brigade with no men to do the heavy lifting. We'll see how long the notion of a new frontier remains."

they probably said the same thing about black soldiers....and about black quarterbacks....

I'm against women in combat on principle.....we need to keep some civility in our culture and women and children STILL should have a special position of being kept from the worse of life...

women don't have to be in combat to serve in vital careers in the military....which they do already....

[MrB]

Black soldiers and quarterbacks wouldn’t have been questioned on their ability to perform “heavy lifting”.
The racist attitude towards blacks centered/centers around intellectual ability.

The problem I see with women in combat is that their fellow male soldiers would have the innate sense of need to protect the woman. It would be a distraction.
Now, this propensity could be trained out of these young men, but would you REALLY want to “train out” their sense of protection of women and physically weaker people?