OK, I gotta say it. Women don't belong in combat.

[MADem]

101. Then you have nothing to worry about.

No one is going to lower standards to play with numbers--hell, there's a drawdown going on. What you are going to see in the years ahead is a hyperactive adherence to regulations, of the sort that makes a warfighter exasperated. PT tests will be conducted methodically; there will be no fudging or gundecking of measurements or results; uniform inspections will increase; promotion standards will become much more difficult; drug tests will increase; minor infractions will become career-ending gaffes. There will be an exodus of personnel as the forces draw down and balance out.

I am not an "absolutist," I simply don't care for sexism or any other kind of -isms, and when the DOD leadership bothers to take the time to be straightforward and say, very clearly, that they aren't going to lower standards, to only be met here by a scant few on a supposedly progressive website insisting that the opposite will happen, well, my military mind goes to motive.