Both my husband and I are in the military.
We are the same age but my PT requirements are far easier then his. Put it this way…meeting the bare minimum standards for men is considered “excellent” by female standards.
That alone tells me that females absolutely CANNOT be considered for infantry positions.
If they can be…then ALL females should meet the same requirements as men for PT. If we are considered equal.
Women are not GI Jane. We are not designed for combat.
Men aren’t psychologically able to handle a woman fighting alongside them on the battlefield. Men will do stupid and dangerous things and disobey orders when they see a female in trouble based on human nature and instinct.
Women face an even greater danger in POW camps then men and aren’t designed to handle being a POW.
If you place females in direct combat with men then feelings will arise and relationships will start and women will be in theatre, engaging the enemy, and will be pregnant (I say will because this is a problem that happens ALL THE TIME now) and suddenly an innocent life is in danger as well.
When my husband was deployed, three girls in his unit were sent home due to them finding out they were pregnant. And he was deployed with a services unit.
Really? This is what we want for our military?
It baffles my mind why people want women in the military so badly.
Personally, I think the military should be totally closed to all women.
Yes, I know that woman have played an critical role in every war. They were nurses, surgeons, pilots, drivers, mechanics, cooks, secretaries…you name it and they did it from all wars we have fought in this country. But the second you start making arguments that women should be able to fight in infantry units, or special forces (God forbid)…when they aren’t even expected to meet the standard PT requirements for every branch that the men are expected to meet…then you lose all of your credibility as a solid and feared military.
First things first. Expect all women…across the board…age bracket to age bracket…to meet the exact same PT standards as men.
It will never happen and a vast majority of the woman would not be able to stay in the military.
I would be one of them. Even when I was in the best shape of my life, I could barely meet the minimum standards the males were required of in PT and I was scoring a 96% on my PT tests.
Out of the 40 girls in my flight at basic training…I think only 3 could comfortably meet the male requirements…and more then 3/4s of us were scoring in the high 90%s for PT.
Women are more likely to be raped while in the military and those rapes are more likely to happen during a deployment and be swept under the rug.
Why in the world do we think it’s okay for women to serve in combat positions?
Pregnancy, rape, children being abandoned at home, divorces piling up…it’s not a good thing to deploy women and it’s an even worse thing to allow them to serve in infantry units.
Says someone that has never conducted fire team rushes with a gas mask on, or tumbled down a hill on patrol at zero dark thirty hours.
And then afterwards, NOW got real, real upset at ABC for airing this segment and demanded Stossel to be reprimanded . If I’m not mistaken they wanted him fired! 
The thing is, my father who was a Baltimore City Firefighter confirmed much of what Stossel was showing.
I mean, they’d be writing her obituary afterwards. 