[Old Teufel Hunden]

Can’t wait for the first woman to hump the 81 mm mortar baseplate on a 15 mile hike. Should be interesting...

[TurboZamboni]

hilarity ensues...

[CodeToad]

I’d just like to see 100% of the women combat ready and not bowing out by getting preggers or claiming medical issues. Getting pregnant is the one thing women can do that men cannot.

[wku man]

"Can’t wait for the first woman to hump the 81 mm mortar baseplate on a 15 mile hike. Should be interesting..."

Or break track on an M-1, or kneel in the back of a Bradley, using brute upper body strength to lift 70-pound TOW missiles and load them into the launcher. Do that repeatedly, all day long, for days on end. As a big, strong, 23-year old Cav Scout, it kicked my backside! The average woman couldn't do it.

Then, of course, are the hygiene requirements of females. I'm not sure about today, but back in the 80s and 90s, we often would spend 30-45-60 days in the field with maybe a single shower run, IF we were lucky. We'd bathe as well as we could, out in the open, out of our steel pot or a 5-gallon jerry can. What about that, TRADOC?

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[oh8eleven]

Can’t wait for the first woman to hump the 81 mm mortar baseplate on a 15 mile hike.
I humped the Pendelton hills with a four-deuce mortar. Forty years later and I'm still sore.