Thank you for your note. I didn't remember the percentage but I did know there was a percentage long ago.
This woman is a paralegal. I do not see a problem with her wearing the uniform, and being trained to handle what could happen if her Army Reserve unit gets called up. We don't have front lines today and anything can happen to anyone during a deployment, whether they're officially in a combat role or not.
You may want to add Army intelligence and logistics to that list of things women could do long ago — some of the early female generals came up through those routes, which probably means they started their careers in the 1950s in the same fields. I'm not sure exactly what MOSes were authorized for women and I'm guessing the rules changed over time based on the needs of the Army, with more women being allowed to do more things during wartime based on the “free a man to fight” principle, and fewer women being recruited for fewer roles during peacetime.
Actually the most funny things I ever saw in the Army came from when a mixed sex MI unit spent some time living around and supplying security for my small element, the females were an embarrassment, they could not even put up the heavy 30 man tent, their guys had to go over and do it. The female weakness kept showing up during the outdoor living period that I could observe them, in other words, it was just like regular life.
Females in logistics are a problem because they are weak, things that were done simply, quickly, and without a second thought in the old army become major challenges with females, even the little 155 round weighs 93 pounds, females have a problem loading a lot of those by hand, if they can do any of them, or lifting a 100 pound industrial size pot of soup off a stove, or mounting heavy munitions under the wing of a plane, or holding up operations while they try to lift a heavy truck tire to replace it.
Replacing your second layer of warriors, and rear guard with replacements who are smaller, shorter, lighter, weaker, more prone to injuries, less physically aggressive, unable to match the men they are replacing, is the ultimate leftist success story. One has to ask, Why? Why move backwards into a downward spiral.
If you have ever watched video of the logistics people trying to slog through the snow and mud of winter warfare, with trucks breaking down, being sunk to their axles, ice braking, tires blowing out, loads having to be off loaded, reloaded, transferred to other vehicles, while being ambushed and strafed, then you will see that it is all about muscles, raw tough guy, manpower.