Try imagining them in artillery.
I watched a video of USMC artillery, and they were humping 155mm artillery shells off the back of a truck. They were pulling them off at chest height, duckwalking them over 15 yards, putting them on the ground, then going back and getting another one.
I think they are somewhere around 100 lbs per round.
Sure, there are women who could do that. But the average woman could not.
When in a combat situation, I can certainly imagine times where that nice loader and transporter thingie is not going to be available, or you are simply in a situation where you gotta move the rounds fast using a bunch of people.
Very true. Even women that can do it would have to be able to sustain that under some conditions and it’s doubtful many, if any have the stamina.
A team is only as good as its weakest person and that’s basically why the study by the Marine Corps on women in the infantry recommended against women in combat.