And how many men will die that shouldn’t trying to rescue a woman that is in the front lines????
Draft daddy’s little girl FIRST!
And how many mothers sons, wounded in battle and incapacitated, will die because some woman can’t pick em up and run????
This will never work.
I don’t think that many women will actually join the Infantry or Armor. There will be a few officers, looking to prove their equality...and some women will join just to have a larger pool of male suitors. Since the overwhelming majority of women cannot physically handle it, most women in combat roles will be viewed as incapable, and generally shunned by the unit...and the women will eventually come up with some ailment like shin splints, or get pregnant, to get out of the unit. Everything about it will be a huge waste of time and energy, but the ratio of male/female in an actual fighting unit would be 20:1. The big problem will occur when some of the women start to get promoted ahead of their peers, probably due to preferential treatment, and you end up with women company commanders in the infantry, etc.
I actually have a degree of experience with this. I went to West Point, which since 1976 has been an unusual laboratory in the Army...including women in all training, to include Infantry training. So I’ve witnessed up close and personal how well they do, which is generally poor with a few exceptions - and those who are exceptions are quickly pushed high up the leadership chain.
A funny anecdote. While I was at West Point, they decided to make a woman the head cadet (First Captain) for the first time. There was a formation of around a thousand New Cadets, and the superintendent made the announcement. Then an audible ‘crack’ was heard across the parade field, as a 100 year old tree in front of the historic superintendent’s quarters broke and fell to the ground. The New Cadets assembled were the class of 93 - and their unofficial motto became ‘We killed the Tree, 93’.
Anyway, I don’t hold a grudge against women, and I believe a very small percentage of women could actually be in the infantry or armor. But I always ask “What’s in it for the Army?” Is the army really so shorthanded in the combat arms? I doubt it. So if the army doesn’t need this, why do it. Same for gays. After decades of policy reviews and pentagon studies, we now have people openly gay in the military. How many? Around a dozen. I know this because that’s the number of media reports I’ve seen about this. If there were more openly gay people in the military, the media would do stories on them too. So all that disruption was for the benefit of a dozen people.