Ditto. These morons have no idea what is expected of a soldier assigned to a front line combat unit. IOTV’s don’t get lighter because you’re a woman. A 249B doesn’t carry itself etc.
If women are assigned to these units, the remaining men in the units will be carrying her weight literally. Also, if you’re clearing a building and have to take a room. Where do you put the woman in the stack. If she’s the first person in the door, and finds herself wresteling with a 200 pound man in the dark (Giving up 70-100 pounds) what happens then. I’ll tell you what happens, you put her where she’s at least risk and that means forcing the male members of her unit to bear some of her share of the risk.
You are exactly right.
It’s bad, bad, bad.
If I were young, I wouldn’t join the military now.
In 1977 I saw three telephone company trucks parked in front of a small fast food joint that was under construction. Three employees were installing phone lines. One was a woman. The two men were there to help her carry her ladder. That’s a fact.