Even if an individual woman can train to get close to the standards (Unless they were lowered, which is ABSOLUTELY what the US Military has done) due to her lesser bone mass and muscle mass, she is going to be far more susceptible to injury. In the linked article below which shows indisputable military studies on this exact subject, women suffer disproportionately. (This study referenced was done back in the mid-Nineties)
See this passage from the article Women in Combat: The Question of Standards, by Jude Eden which I link to below:
Here, from that article, is the passage that says it all:
"...Meanwhile, the argument to maintain the combat exclusion makes itself easily in every aspect. Including women in combat units is bad for combat, bad for women, bad for men, bad for children, and bad for the country.
The argument for the combat exclusion is provable all the time, every time.
Political correctness has no chance against Nature. Her victories are staring us in the face at all times.
The men just keep being able to lift more and to run faster, harder, and longer with more weight on their backs while suffering fewer injuries. They just keep never getting pregnant.
The combat units have needs that women cannot meet. Women have needs that life in a combat unit cannot accommodate without accepting significant disadvantage and much greater expense. Where 99 percent of men can do the heavy-lifting tasks typical of gunners, but 85 percent of women cannot, there is no gap women need to fill..."
And it isn't just the infantry, either. I watched a video of USMC artillery, and they were humping 155mm artillery shells off the back of a truck. They were pulling them off at chest height, duckwalking them over 15 yards, putting them on the ground, then going back and getting another one.
I think they are somewhere around 100 lbs per round.
Sure, there are women who could do that. But the average woman could not.
When in a combat situation, I can certainly imagine times where that nice loader or wheeled transporter is not going to be available, or you are simply in a situation where you gotta move the rounds fast using a bunch of people.
The end result, as noted, is that women are going to incur injuries at a higher rate than men do, simply as a result of biology, and in a combat situation, that means losing a skirmish, a battle, and a war.
Great post.
Women are going to bleed the military budgets dry, not only with their female and mom stuff on base, but with the disability pensions, and they will just take over the VA hospitals.
Not only that, testosterone does more than make muscle. It makes you aggressive.