Anyone who knows combat as I do, knows this is a very bad idea.
This is going to be very bad. I just finished a couple of books on the war in Afghanistan. One was about the special forces/ranger fight during Operation Anaconda and the other was about a 10th mountain Division unit in Eastern Afghanistan. What both of these units went through was brutal combat at about 10,000 feet. I don’t think any woman soldier would have survived. Our soldiers are required to patrol in some of the roughest terrain in the world against the most savage sons of bitches we ever fought. Our guys have to carry combat loads of eighty to 100 pounds I don’t see women doing it. What will probably happen is that they will be left in base camp and the men will do the patroling and combat. The women will still count against the combat strenth of the unit. This has just got so many things wrong with it and a lot of soldiers are going to die for the decisions made by Obama and the chicken shit Pannetta.