Women in Combat

[dead0man]

95% of the time it's fine, an improvement even in the top special forces echelon (imagine how much easier it would to be all sneaky if you were a lady instead of a dude), I think that the "we don't want womens in the fox hole with us" is overblown and women already are in some combat positions.

...but physical and mental standards shouldn't be lowered to make it happen.

[dead0man]

...but physical and mental standards shouldn't be lowered to make it happen.

Out of curiosity, are the standards currently the same in the US military?  Do they have different physical requirements for men and women?

When I joined (Dec94) to get in there were no physical requirements for any of the branches except, oddly, the Air Force which required everybody to lift some sorta low amount (say, 35lbs...I don't really remember).  You had to pass a "limber" test in MEPS (military in processing), but that wasn't that big of a deal.  During basic there were different requirements for men and women to graduate.  I don't remember the details, but say a male had to do the mile in 9min, women got 10:30...if males had to do 3 pullups, women only had to do 1...60 pushups in 2 min for men, 40 for women...that kind of thing.  If memory serves, Marines recently upped their requirements for women to match the men, but then most women failed.

The vast majority of people in the military don't do "combat".

[dead0man]

95% of the time it's fine, an improvement even in the top special forces echelon (imagine how much easier it would to be all sneaky if you were a lady instead of a dude), I think that the "we don't want womens in the fox hole with us" is overblown and women already are in some combat positions.

...but physical and mental standards shouldn't be lowered to make it happen.

Though I would think it would be more of a physical issue. There's more overlap than you think in terms of whose dark, obedient and though enough for the job.

I have no clue what you're trying to say here, especially the "dark" part.

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Agreed.

[dead0man]

Three women pass Marine Corps endurance test, paving way for possible first female graduates of infantry school

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Good luck ladies, that was the "easy" part.