I had a ‘krewe’ of men and women subordinates, as a USAF warehouse supervisor in 1975, all races, shapes, and sizes.
The women could not hold their own, then, and that was not a ‘combat role’, combat job series number, nothin’!
If there was a shift change, you guessed it, whine, whine, whine.
If there was, (this being a military establishment), a mobility drill exercise, or an Operational Readiness Inspection, which included getting to your on-the-base workspace in 15 minutes or less, from wherever you were and what you were doing on-base or in town, and in correct uniform, whine, whine, whine. If the exercise required you to stay at your workspace for more than 12 hours, or over the entire weekend, (sleeping in the warehouse racks), without a break, (flight kitchens provided box lunches and coffee), in the clothes on your back ... you guessed it.
Since then, America has seen fit to swallow the swill of having female politicians being elected to mayorships, governorships.
As a Hurricane Katrina survivor, I saw the meltdown of a female governor firsthand.
So, to sum up, not no, but HECK NAW, do i want to see any women in any kind of combat, or combat support roles! They were bad enough in the ‘behind the lines’ jobs.
I have no problem working with and for women in industry or private practice. I respect their ability to do their jobs in industry or private practice as well or better than I can.
I feel quite differently about warfare. In combat situations where the physical strength of men performing tasks (in the heat of it, in the absence of all those devices that make physical strength less of an issue such as ammo lifts and trucks to carry equipment) where humping boxes of mortar rounds or ammo up a hill to units who are running low because the enemy is coming in strength, or a unit trying to hold its own critical position in vicious hand to hand combat in a dug in position, a 25% loss in physical strength capability (at a minimum) in that unit because it is evenly populated with females, is unacceptable, no, it is criminal in the way they are going to end up there. As I said in another post: "I feel that doing this now (forcing women into combat roles) with the wind of political correctness behind it is going to sow extremely bitter fruit for our troops who have to fight a real battle in the future in units crippled in order to meet a politically correct expediency.