TexasRogue
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Women would probably do well in Armor units. Tanks are cramped quarters and women are, as a rule, smaller than men. For the same reason, they are at a decided disadvantage for the Infantry. As a former Forward Observer, I know exactly what kind of back-breaking labor is involved in being light Infantry. I typically carried between 100 and 150 lbs of gear when I climbed the mountains of Afghanistan. That's simply not something most women would be able to do. Hell, most men can't, w/out strenuous training. Admittedly, there are some women who could. My biggest concern about women in combat units has nothing to do with their abilities, though. It's that there is frequently NO privacy. Your buddy guards your back while you take a dump on the side of a mountain. When we're piled together for warmth and someone sports wood in their sleep, as all men do, we just nudge the bastard off of us and call him gay good-naturedly...knowing we'll get the next nudge. What happens in that pile of bodies when one of them is a woman? We, as a society, are so litigious that I'm wary of women in combat for just that.
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