Regardless if the instructors were forced to go softer on these women or not (I’ll never know), the sickest thing in my mind is the fact that there is actually a push to put women into combat.
War is the worst possible action mankind resorts to to solve problems or destroy evil. Women should be protected from this horror, not promoted to go to it. I can’t imagine what is going to happen when one of these women get captured by the likes of ISIS/Daesh, and they video tape them being raped, scalped, dismembered and overall brutalized before having their head sawed off with a rusty knife. It will happen.
This also doesn’t even take into account what adding sexual tensions to a combat unit will do to distract it from it’s overall mission. If women in a unit make it more effective and lethal, then do it. But history and studies show that it more often then not, ruins unit effectiveness.
“This also doesn’t even take into account what adding sexual tensions to a combat unit will do to distract it from it’s overall mission”
Excellent point. Same goes for homosexual men in the military. Are we there to fight or are we there to look politically correct?
Consider actual relationships as well. Suppose I become engaged to a woman in my unit. Then - deep down - is my first loyalty to my unit or to my fiance?
Not a big deal if I'm in a supply unit. But if I'm in a combat unit...
BINGO!....The male species hasn't “evolved” enough to do away with that “tension” yet <<<< (and IMHO thank God!)...
In my 2 years in Viet Nam I observed way too many fights among enlisted men and officers alike over “hoochmaids” and especially over “overweight round-eyed Donut Dollies” to be convinced otherwise!!!....
IMHO....the failure rate of a regular GI and a female in an uneventful perimeter foxhole for 2 weeks together would be greater then Ranger School!!...but all I have to go by is my experience with the former...