Like about everyone, I know many people in the military or who were. My daughter is trying to enlist in the Air Force at this time, waiting for the physical. She is not well suited for direct frontline combat. She would be a huge asset to the military, as she is recognized as a huge asset to any organization she involves with and is pushed to the top.That is unless she is in a unit where physical fitness and ability play a very big part of there job. No matter how smart you are if you can't hump to the OBJ than you are useless to the infantry
Of all I've known, I've only known one that I would feel fully confident that he and a dozen men like him could be left in any remote area only with what they could carry, and not only survive but be a very effective pro-active aggressive engagement combat unit - and that is the Marine I have written about. No one who knew him doubted he would fly thru boot camp with easy and be exactly what the Marines want and need. Me and everyone else on my ODA think basic was a joke what is your point
I'm a tough guy. But then that's most my life history my whole life until recently, like it or not. Few men I fear. But if I had to make a run for it thru the massive tracts of natural preserve lands around here, he is the one person I would not want after me. He did basically that his entire life from his childhood. It was his thing, what he did. He's not big nor bulky, but all of him is toughness for his size, skilled and trained. He's smart. I'd put the odd at 90%-10% that he'd hunt me down and kill me. The only reason I put my odds at 10% is because he wouldn't be hunting me down, we'd be hunting each other and I might get lucky.I hate to tell you this but hunting has very very little to do with combat
I fail to grasp - with all the furious claim of male prowlness compared to women - that total disbelief that such young men exist OR that the military - and specifically the Marines - would not spot and use such a man. Here is what you don't seem to get SOF units do not go looking for people. They have more people wanting to join them than they know to do with. You have to go to them
IF what is being declared, that the military is like the United Auto Worker's Union for which assignment and advancement is based singularly on seniority and random drawing of names, then the military is totally screwed up. However, I don't believe that is how the military works at all - only that is how it works for average service members who neither excel at anything or fail at anything. No one is saying promotion is random. What people are saying is that there are requirements to be promoted and a big one of those are time in service which someone straight out of basic. Here is an example for you to be a E7 in the Army no matter what you do or what job you have the minimum time in srevice is 7 years so no matter what you will not make that rank faster than that. The biggest thing you don't seem to understand is that basic training is so very basic and simple that no matter how tough or great a shot you are no one in SOF cares. Every thing in basic is so cut and dry and simple that there is nothing you can do to stand out more than the other top 25% of you company. What are you going to do qualify expert on the qualifying range well who gives a ****. No one in SOF even spends anytime doing regular rifle qualification. The skills that SOF do now are ahead of the regular military so do you really think someone doing well at a level below the regular military is going to impress them
Back on topic, if CPWILL is correct and the military only operates in massive units numbering in the thousands that all stick together at all times? I can see no reason for women not to be in such massed collective "combat" units at all.