[FreedomPoster]

Bingo! You beat me to a similar reponse.

I'm the son of an Army armor officer. On the maintenance side, I've seen groups of men swearing while breaking track on an M-60. Large truck and diesel engine repair is not for lightweights. How many women were in the 507th Maintenance Company? How much less able to accomplish their mission were they because of the sort of things outlined above?

On the logistics side, compare how many 155mm shells a 50th %-ile man can unload from the truck to the ammo carrier, versus a 50th %-ile woman.

Women have a place in the military, and we are trying way too hard to make the military unisex, which is another thing entirely.

[waterstraat]

There is a side benefit to having women in the miliitary, if you want women to be against gun control. They vote you know. Read the article by Wendy McElroy. Not every woman can do every job in the military, but if you tell women that fighting, killing, resisting attackers, practiciing self-defense, being in the military, and carrying a gun is something a woman should not do, then you are going to lose the biggest war of all.