“He recognises that there are some valid concerns: most pertinently, the ability of a female soldier to quickly carry a wounded male counterpart to safety...”They are not going to win hand-to-hand combat, but most of the time we use guns and a lot of the time they shoot better than the guys.”
Requirements include:
Six pull-ups
50 sit-ups in two minutes
40 push-ups
3km run [< 2 miles] - maximum time 13 minutes
Yeah. Elite female fighting force. Just make sure they never need to carry anyone to safety and never need to do hand-to-hand combat.
Exactly. An old friend of mine who passed away recently was an artillery sergeant in Vietnam. He also went on a number of Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols ‘’lrps’’) and was just an all around killer. He told me in no uncertain terms women should never be in combat roles. He said they simply don’t have the strength or the stamina to endure combat.