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And how is she a hindrance if she can pass all the tests?
.....how long has it been since you spent much time as a single young female in the company of lots of ramped-up, in-shape 18-22 year old males, who were self selected to have a higher bias towards aggression and alpha-male typology and then trained to think they were invincible?
We had females come out to the FOB. It was the same disaster story it is everywhere else it is tried. The concept of team broke down as everyone tried to get laid. It's a huge problem in the mixed-gender units as well, both on deployment and in the rear. That's why they have to go to all the lengths they do on deployment to try to stop people from hammering away like rabbits.
If we sent our 50 year olds into combat :shrug: sure. Maybe. But our 18-22 year olds suffer from the fact that they are between the ages of 18 and 22.
Now is the part where (typically) the response is "professionalism" and my response is "reality - and in reality appealing to professionalism to paper over real problems results in more dead 18 year old kids" No thanks. I've said enough good-bye's to last me at least until I'm old enough that at least my friends are dying of old age.