“Politically correct” is a disaster. Females make fine soldiers, but their body mass and strength isn’t anywhere close to males when it comes to carrying heavy loads. It isn’t debateable.
They have a role to play in the military, but this notion that people are interchangeable meatsticks is extremely stupid. Putting 18-28 year old men and women together in close quarters is also pretty stupid. We really are “led” by idiots. They cause more trouble than can be believed.
I have been banging that drum for years, but the past several administrations are hell bent on making it a jobs program.
We will pay for this in blood. And it won’t be the blood of the POS politicians who will have feathered their nests and be far away when it goes down.
If you look at the dilution and weakening of the armed forces as deliberate, then it isn’t idiotic, it’s intentional.
Some comments on the subject from a few years ago from a family expert:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3415429/posts?page=24#24
That whole thread is worth reviewing.
If it were just carrying loads, it wouldn't be such an issue. Women in combat, or in combat leadership positions is just a God-awful disaster on so many levels, for so many reasons.
People will just do the sickest, stupidest things over social politics, which is one reason why I'm beginning to develop such a deep hatred for the modern left.