As usual, the bluff old traditionalists wheel themselves out for a thread about women. If it isn't you lot drooling over women, it's the same Daily Mail-ruffling Cold War Warriors complaining that things are not hard enough any more. Harking back to the Good Old Days of the FI in 82 is utterly pointless.
If you haven't noticed, the British Armed Forces have been fighting - really fighting - for over a decade. If you've been utterly ignorant of who has been doing what and where (which it appears from these posts that you have been), women ARE on the front line, women ARE bringing much-needed capabilities and women ARE fighting in both offensive and defensive positions. To intimate that the ability to yomp / tab across the FI is a showstopper is to ignore everything from Afghanistan and Iraq. Women are serving with the infantry and, for those who wish to do so, we should let them attempt the same entry criteria.
I appreciate that many of you find the concept of women straying too far from the matrimonial kitchen sink as somewhat alarming, but things can and do change. A few of you may even be surprised to learn that 'they' have the vote these days.