As a veteran and as someone who deals often with current active duty combat troops I will say this. When you are hit and down, you don’t give a rats ass if it is a man or a women that runs out and drags your sorry butt to cover. Some women will fail in combat. Some men do. In the new wars, were is a combat zone? How do you keep any segment of your forces out of harms way?
So youre suggesting a woman could drag a 220 lb man off the field of battle hunh? Ok
In combat or a house fire, ya want a woman trying to pick you up and carry you or up or down stairs, or a male who is more than capable?
How about trying to pull a 200 pound man up and out through a turret of an armored vehicle?
Don't know about you, but this is a *real* easy choice for me.
“When you are hit and down, you don’t give a rats ass if it is a man or a women that runs out and drags your sorry butt to cover.”
If you are a 200 lb guy with 100 lbs of gear on, it will NOT be a woman who pulls you to cover. Same if you are a 150 lb guy with 100 lbs of gear.
Unless it is a movie. Then a 100 lb gal will carry you back over her shoulder while kickboxing the enemy. While cracking jokes.
Keeping them out is of harms way is impossible.
PUTTING them in harms way is criminal.
I’m a veteran, too.
EVERY time a woman has had to perform rigorous physical tasks along side men, she’s failed. We (I) ended up humping her ruck and carrying her rifle.
Sure, some men fail.
Most, even ALL, women will fail when they physically compete alongside and with men.
Look this is just foolishness. Yes some women could drag a guy off the battlefield. But the fact is that very large percentages of women in the military right now couldn't drag a 100 pound pack off the battlefield. Men and women are physically different, from upper body strength to size to aerobic capacity. Vive le difference'!