I think it’ll ultimately be a wash, because few women will volunteer from infantry front-line duty. However... for those who do, not a single standard should be lowered in training to ease the path for them. Whatever their male counterparts must accomplish, so must they.
Won't happen. Based on current male standards few females would be on active duty. They could run and all but loaded down with equipment, nah.
They will just change the regs to accomodate women. Now stretchers are a four person job because two women can't lift a stretcher with an average sized guy and if they could they would not get very far.
They will forecit. It will fail and they will change the regs againg. Happens all the time.
And they simply can not.
And therein lies the inequality. Other than those who are guaranteed certain Army/Marine specialties upon enlistment, aren't all others assigned as the particular service demands?
Maybe things have changed since I served, but at the time, if not guaranteed an "A" school for a particular rating (MOS to Army/Marines), then you got assigned to whatever billet needed filled.
If that's still the case, then ALL non-specialty women should be assigned where ever, including ground combat units. Let's see how that works.