[Washi]

It's all about equality. Equal access to serving in the military should necessarily include equal opportunity for advancement, equal risk of danger, equal standards of performance (to include physical fitness standards).

If allowed to join the military, women should be required to serve in combat.

[ansel12]

If allowed to join the military, women should be required to serve in combat.

What combat leader would not want to replace his man warriors with a shorter, lighter, weaker, sicklier, less aggressive, slower moving, more terrain limited, reduced distance traveling, hygienically vulnerable, smaller weight carrying, more prone to injury, version.

He would have to rewrite all the knowledge and experience, of what his troops are capable of and reduce all that accordingly, and simply eliminate some capabilities entirely, but a fair enemy would not seek to capitalize on those advantages of course.

In the meantime, I wonder if Americans have forgotten that if we lose in a major war, we disappear from the future, forever. It seems that many Americans are starting to see war as a sporting event, where you can win or lose, but it doesn't really change anything.

[SgtHooper]

Agreed, but they need to be in all-women units. No way are most women physically capable of dragging/hoisting a male when it is needed the most.

[itsahoot]

(to include physical fitness standards).

Then you are against it.