I believe that all should serve not necessarily in combat positions, but if a woman can do the job with NO special accommodations let her. Threaten a woman’s children and see what a combatant she can be.
“- - - but if a woman can do the job with NO special accommodations let her - - “
I fully agree. But this will never happen in todays culture. It’s not about what people can do without making special accommodations.
The best example I can come up with is our current President, not even remotely qualified for the job, and having to use a teleprompter as a special accommodation. Just think how silly this is, could anyone even remotely imagine JFK or Reagan using a teleprompter???
But getting back to the subject at hand, for a couple decades or so it has been very common to read about a fire department, police department, and the military relaxing standards to allow more women in. This is a special accommodation. This unto itself is sexist.
Someone mentioned Russian snipers of WWII. When a nation is about to be brutally crushed with prisoners shot or burned to death or beheaded, as in the case of what’s going on now in the middle east, many women are indeed taking up arms. In such a case, I’d willingly fight with and depend on a woman determined to kill the enemy just to survive. But until we get that bad off, they should stay out of the combat arms.