If you think warfare is simply another form of athletics, you scare me.
Nope, I don’t. However, I believe people should be given the chance to prove themselves. If they can’t make the grade, they can’t make the grade. I went through reserve Marine basic. Same thing guys did. I passed. No special privileges. I got yelled at just the same, ate the same mud, repelled off cliffs like them, the whole scene. My dad was a Marine pilot in Vietnam, I have two brothers that served in Iraq One and my mom is a military brat. I’ve been there and done that. I was thirteen and and dropped off in the forest behind my home. We live on five acres that abuts a national forest. All I had were the basics and I spent three days out there on my own. All I ever asked for or wanted was a chance. I’m now an FAA certified pilot. I fly bizjets and now work in Australia as a pilot for the Royal Australian Flying Doctors. I put planes down in the outback that’d scare the living crap out of any Marine pilot. So I am a paid up dues player. Too many guys think that women are too fragile to do anything but make sandwiches and have babies. You try pushing something the size of a watermelen through an orifice of your body then tell me how very unphysical we are.