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It does not sound as if they are diluting the training at this time. Also, any woman who chooses to do this is not going to get pregnant to get out of combat. We women don’t invest major efforts in something just to wimp out. Remember, especially in earlier years, every time a woman had a baby, she risked death and a lot of pain......

uh, I've taken care of Army females that outnumbered men 9:1 with low back pain, sore knees, "stress", ankle sprains on a HIKE!!!

When they have to slog through some brush, sprint across some dirt and lay cover for their unit or try flanking a position in the dark after humping it for miles with all your gear.... tell me how many of them are going to crap out and die. My problem isn't with them dying, my problem is if they're supposed to cover my son's flank and they didn't, HE'S dead and the feminist will only care about combat not "being fair".

I am not suggesting that women be allowed to qualify with lower standards. However, I recently read John DelVecchio’s very “real” book on the Vietnam War, “The 13th Valley”. In it you have the heavy machine gun being carried by the biggest strongest guy in the unit, and the smaller guys serving as the tunnel rats. My late husband, a Korean War infantry combat vet, wanted to take a course on motor repair. We had an old rum runner with a V-8 engine, and he didn’t want it to quit on him out at sea and not know how to fix it. The men’s mechanics class was full, so he signed up in the women’s class that had some vacancies. He had a somewhat superior male attitude, but at the end of the course he said it worked really well. He partnered with a woman and said when something heavy needed to be done he did it, but when something intricate or in a tight spot needed doing she did it. I realize this is not an exact analogy, but I also think that a few women can do as well as the average or slightly below average Marine. And I realize that anyone who makes Marine is already above average.