I would be fine with that, provided women recruits were held to the EXACT SAME standards as the men, and the standards were not lowered to get some acceptable number of women through.
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“women recruits were held to the EXACT SAME standards as the men, and the standards were not lowered”
Yep I agree..
Yep, just as long as the _exact_ same standard are kept. That includes combat loads and injured comrade carry requirements.
I agree, but it’ll never happen. Day 1, the first thing you do is take the APFT (plus 6 chin-ups from a dead hang), which has different standards for men and women.
Day 2, the first thing you do is a 5-mile run in formation at an 8-min/mile pace.
I certainly know some women who could do those things to the same standards as men, but not many—which would negate the point of allowing women into Ranger school in the first place.