“Not every woman - or man - is cut out to fight another Pork Chop Hill, but many battlefields these days bear little resemblance to Verdun, Pork Chop Hill or Battle of the Bulge.”
And you have devined that such scenarios will never happen again? Please reecall the admonition against fighting the last war.
I would also refer you to “House to House” BY SSG David Bellavia on Fallujah as a small scale Stalingrad or “Outlaw Platoon” by Sean Parnell with a light infantry platoon performing similar feats to Merril’s Marauder’s in Afghanistan.
Your PC fantasies do not confuse those of us who have experienced infantry combat at the sharp end. We simply do not need large numbers of women in this role on the first teams to engage the enemy considering the fact that this nation’s population is over 300,000,000. There are more than enough men for the role. When we are getting defeated like the Soviets were in Operation Barbarossa we can either consider surrender or creating Night Witches Flying Squadrons.
I have to share this....in the summer of 90, I was in desert training at Pendleton when Desert Shield kicked off...I was the training officer for all of the personnel in this group—bout 230 of them as I recall....OK...NOW...picture sending either of these two babes into Combat...one gal literally cut the end out of her leather gloves, so as not to break one of her fake RED fingernails (unauthorized polish, and nails...but I digress......) OR...the gal that had a FIT because she was “promised 8 hours of sleep each night”, and Reville came before she had even had 5 (my heart bleeds for her...THEN this same lass shows up in formation wearing PEARL earrings with her Cammies (Thats BDU’s for you Army pukes ;-) LOL
Needless to say...I was completely undwewhelmed by these officer wannabe “leaders”. THEN, when several of us were being called out of training to actually BE deployed ASAP...you should have seen the panic in the faces of these galsm, thinkins they might actually have to go DO something..UNREAL!