The questions which never, or rarely, get asked is; why have women never routinely filled the ranks of the Armed Forces frontline posts before the last 30 or so years?
If arguments over gender equality were neither here nor there, would the Army be going out of their way to recruit women into the Infantry/Armoured untis etc?
Further, if physical strength and ruggedness are plain and simply not of any true concern, why do we not see women playing alongside men in professional sports teams? Why aren't they mixed? or is that just far too important an endeavour to risk the out come of?
The latter point touches on Courtney's comment, also an observation made many years ago by my Brother in Law, if you take two equal size intakes in to the Marines say, one entirely male the other entirely female and train both to the same standard using the same training syllabus, exactly so, without let or hinderence, what would the outcome be and how would they fair if pitted against one another?
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