On the Reality of Combat

[TwilightGardener]

37. I don't get your point. If a woman qualifies for combat duty, physically and mentally, what

on God's green earth does pooping in a bag matter? Or losing privacy? Or having to endure unpleasant conditions? Because some MEN wash out, women could never succeed under the same circumstances?

Tell you what, most likely few women will qualify physically for combat/infantry type roles, because they do not have the upper-body strength, it's as simple as that. There are strength differences between men and women, and THAT is the only limiting factor, or should be. Nothing else that this article describes should keep women out. Besides, it's perfectly OK for women to deal with others' piss and shit and blood as nurses and nurses' aides--no one is worried about those delicate flowers when they turn heavy patients to clean up a GI-bleed shit for the fifth time during a shift. Women have been the ones to handle the unpleasant physical tasks of caring for others since the dawn of man. Why should they need protection from unpleasant physical circumstances in combat?