The top 1% of males (who our special forces are drawn from... maybe even the top 10% of the 1%) so outperform the very strongest, fastest, etc. women on the planet as for there to be no comparison. That's biology. That's genetics. And it doesn't matter what this generation thinks about it. Anyone arguing differently is simply promulgating a lie. That's the modern liberal way: if you don't like reality, simply make it up and browbeat others until they won't contradict your lies...
I agree. The strongest woman I have ever met in the Marine Corps could only do 15 pullups. That is a about average for a male Marine. I was doing 22 pullups, 110 crunches in two minutes and running three miles in 22 minutes at the age of 48 and I knew that I was over the hill- not in strength, but in endurance. Women and old men cannot recuperate as fast as young men.
I had friends that went to Ranger school. They didn't talk about how strong you had to be, they talked about being one step away from exhaustion, constant sleep depredation, and always being hungry.
I went to jump school when I was 21. It was way too easy. I probably drank 6-12 beers a day after training and smoked about 2 packs of cigarettes a day and had absolutely no problems with the training.
We had an Army major in my airborne class and he told me getting old sucks, because he was in very good shape, but the daily grind wore his body down. He said that by the second week of training he spent an hour each day soaking his body in the bath tub to relax; while the rest of use were at the bar drinking and smoking.
And when was the last time you worked closely with female athletes? Back in softball in highschool? In 1948?
You really need to update your exposure. Go watch women play national championship rugby. They would kick not only your ass, but most of your friends and their kids.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
The times have changed. If they can meet the standards, they should serve. Just like men.