OffensivelyOpenMinded
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Agreed. I don't even have an issue with a woman being assigned to combat lines IF they can meet the requirements.I don't know the present situation but when I was in the Marine Corps in the mid-1950s there were no women Marines assigned to combat line companies. They were trained in small arms and some light infantry tactics (to prepare for "last resort" situations) but when a platoon of 85 women were processed through the normal un-modified 13-week recruit training course at Parris Island ("boot camp") all but two out of 85 were disqualified by the seventh week. What that proved is with few exceptions women are not designed by Nature to endure the physical and psychological rigors of sustained combat conditions -- sustained being the pivotal factor.
This is not to say the women Marines I knew were not good at their jobs, many of which involved very difficult and demanding work, because they were -- and we respected them for that.