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! :)
Well, actually she picked the fight with an Army guy and ended up marrying a Marine. The Army guy taught her a 200 lb man could do things a 100 lb woman cannot. Her husband’s time in the Marines, including two tours in Iraq, house-to-house fighting, losing 60 lbs in the field, carrying well over 100 lbs of gear, shooting someone he could touch with his rifle, etc - that made her realize the difference between being ready to fight if needed and being in the infantry.
I was Air Force. Some jobs in the Air Force are fine for women. Some are not. But very few jobs in the USAF compare to infantry. My last combat tour was when I was 49. I weighed 160 lbs, could do 80 pushups, run 1.5 miles in 9 minutes even...and would have had ZERO business trying to be infantry.
America is largely clueless about what ground combat and attacking forces go thru. We have people who think doing pushups or running around a track qualifies you physically...but that doesn’t mean squat.