[ansel12]

Artillery is combat arms, an average 155 shell weighs 93 pounds, the spade that I used to lift, carry, and install alone, to free up an extra digger on quick fires weighed 220 pounds or so.

Even in support, like the mess haul and truck driving, women fail, figure a liquid at roughly 8 lb.s per gallon, then look at mess hall pots, or a giant slab of beef, or a truck driver that can't lift the tire to replace it.

The military is mostly moving and lifting stuff, out in the country, and not on your own schedule.

Scenario: I can't give you enough time, but men are dying and the only thing that can save some of them and keep our front from collapsing is getting these supplies loaded back up on the trucks and moved through 30 miles of mud, fields, hills, and a creek before the counterattack, you will become infantry once there, until replaced.

The only help that I can give you is to offer you the option of a male crew, or a female crew, whichever you choose will be short handed, and they haven't slept in 3 days, and rations have been short for 6 weeks.

[Travis McGee]

Yep. You know. Yep.

[MortMan]

My poor memory has already been corrected - but thanks!

[Chgogal]

“Even in support, like the mess haul and truck driving, women fail, figure a liquid at roughly 8 lb.s per gallon, then look at mess hall pots, or a giant slab of beef, or a truck driver that can't lift the tire to replace it.”

I totally agree with you. Women should only be accepted if they can hack it. If they cannot qualify they should be deemed unacceptable. Quotas are the worst. If only one woman qualifies so be it. If none qualify, so be it. Like I said not many women would qualify for what you are describing. The standards should not be lowered. Period.

Hey, short rations for six weeks....sounds like a great diet. Where do I sign-up?

Relax, I am joking. ; )