My daughter was in the Marines. She felt pretty tough when she got out of boot camp.
A short time later, she met an Army guy just out of boot camp and challenged him to a fight. He picked her up with one hand and tossed her across the room. Not judo...but like he was tossing a 100 lb bale of hay at the farm.
Then he said, “You’re cute!”
She decide “cute” was better than “hospitalized” and they got along well after that.
She later married a Marine in the infantry.
She says it is absolutely insane to try to put women in the infantry - that she never met a woman, in or out of the Marines, who could handle what the infantry had to do.
This article mentions the difference should a combat mission come down to hand-to-hand combat.
I guarantee you that if you put an NBA team on the court with a WNBA team that it would be a massacre.
Why would we expect combat to be any different?
I don’t know if that if the most twisted “love” story or the cutest?! “Mommy, how did you and Daddy meet?” “Well, sugar, Daddy tossed Mommy like a sack of potatoes and then we looked into each other’s eyes and fell madly in love”. LOL! :)
Thanks for posting that. I agree that women in combat is an absolutely ridiculous idea.
My father was in the infantry. I’m thankful his life never depended upon being carried off the battlefield by a woman.
Despite the popular slogan, we CAN’T do everything men can do, and I don’t understand why we think we need to try. It isn’t a competition. We’re different. And that in no way means unequal.