Originally Posted by
Ninthace
You are making unwarranted assumptions in your analysis I suggest. Not all members of the military have to be in the front line. There is a significant support element. There is no reason I can see why women should not serve as ably as men in all branches according to their capabilities in the same way men do. In my own specialisation, around 40% were women and their gender was never an issue. The best boss I ever had was a woman.
I have seen a female accounts officer disarm 3 men while armed with nothing more than a piece of metal conduit. Never judge a book by its cover.
Welcome to brush wars and insurgencies. REMF, POG, in the rear with the beer and the gear and other expressions of life spent behind the wire are hardly accurate anymore. One resupply mission to an outpost puts you on the front lines. One humanitarian mission to help rebuild a school puts you on the front lines. Simply being in country often puts you on the front lines as evidenced by a number of dead and a large loss of Harriers being destroyed while nested away for the night.
Equality means being subject to heading off to war like the fellas.