If not, she can join the Unicorn Cavalry and ride into battle shooting moonbeams and trailing clouds of stardust to confuse and disorient the enemy.
That they just won’t form all women combat units from supposedly qualified females and see how they perform is a big clue that this is complete crap.
Freegards
Sure, after all the tests and requirements are watered down. We're seeing that happen now in fire departments. So I expect the infantry to soon do the same.
course she can pass once the tests are made easier, like the woman at Ranger school where now the army can’t find her records on what she did there.
“Can she do the job? Can she pass all the tests, meet all the requirements? Then sure, why not?”
Why not? There is more to physique than tests. She still has a uterus to contend with in field conditions.
“Can she do the job? Can she pass all the tests, meet all the requirements? Then sure, why not?”
Because it isn’t about her. She is 100% guaranteed to destroy unit cohesion. She will find a senior NCO benefactor and avoid crappy duty. Someone will hit on her and she will report sexual harassment. Someone she likes WON’T hit on her and it’ll be harassment. Purely by chance she gets a bennie that every grunt eventually gets, but the males will believe it’s because she’s probably doing the CO.
Wives back home will get photos of her smiling beside their husbands. Morale suffers.
Anything she does, right or wrong, including doing nothing at all, will tear a unit apart. No level of can she climb over a wall and will she be professional can change the reality. Her unit is weaker just because she is in it.
Last, when she sees a deployment she doesn’t like and she doesn’t want to go, its “get pregnant as fast as she can” time. The dirty little secret is that units and ships with large female contingents deploy with many people they counted on not deploying with them due to sudden pregnancies. Her understrength unit will deploy that way, or with last minute replacements.
It isn’t just about “if she can do the job”.
And you might want to notice that I also included a rather sarcastic alternative.
As to the requirements being altered, that is de facto discrimination. My assumption -- albeit tongue-in-cheek -- is that there is one set of rules for both men and women, which we all know is not the case.
The requirements are already different physically for men and women in the army. They have a whole different set of physical exercises, and longer times, to do runs and obstacle courses. And can go around obstacles if needed.