ItAin'tFree
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The view that the Marines consist singularly of ground assault soldiers is naïve and false. And hand-to-hand combat is increasingly irrelevant anyway. Are men inherently better shots? If not, then the complaint is nothing.
In addition, there are many situations where women would be more suited than men in foreign countries, given that men aren't even allowed in some settings, just like women are not in other settings. There are situations where women would be more persuasive.
One real problem Hitler had taking Stalingrad was German troops were limited only to men, Russian troops were not. Women served not only in front line combat groups, but numerous support roles too. I have no doubt German troops were not laughing about Russian women in the infantry before it was over - particularly the women operating machine gun nests. Germans had pushed the Stalingrad defense to just a few blocks - and if you study that even in detail you find it was Russia having both women and men in frontline combat that made the difference. But for women, Stalingrad would have fallen - and if it had the war would have proceeded in an entirely different direction - opening Russian oil to Germany and kept a couple hundred thousand more Germans on the Western front.
It has often been pointed out that whether it be Muslim or otherwise, a society that only uses 1/2 it's population are also those most impoverished and limited societies.
Women have some inherent superiorities. For example, on average women can take more pain than a man.
But, on the bottom line, the measure of a good soldier being the one who can do the most pull-ups is - simply put - absurd. Even for Marines.
And the Soviets got women out of those units as quick as they could because they were not as effective as men and they created problems at the small unit level.
Nobody in the Marine Core ever said whoever can do the most pull ups is the measure of a good Marine. Period. A complete and deliberate misrepresentation on your part.