was made available to female recruits. "Waaah, waaaah, they won't be able to lift the MAIL BAGS! They'll be batting their little eyes and demanding that THE MEN do it! Waaah! We'll have to do their jerbs FOR 'em!!!! WAAAAH!"
It got so stupid that they put a strength/lift test in the AFEES (later MEPS) physical exam to any female recruit who had received a classification or designation to perform postal duties in uniform. IIRC, it was something like a fifty pound lift. I never met a female postal clerk who had trouble doing her job due to the "weight of the mail." It was one of those fake reasons that was designed as an excuse to deny, nothing more.
Frum ought to go ask Tammy Duckworth if that rocket that took off her legs had "second thoughts" because "Oh look--that's a girrrrrrrrrrrl flying that bird!!! She's too weak for combat, and not qualified! Let me turn my rocket ass around and go blow up something else!"
The moron ought to also speak with Rhonda Cornum, one of the servicemembers I most respect on this earth. She's a real hero who survived being abused as a prisoner of war with broken arms--puts his whining ass to shame. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhonda_Cornum Amazing human being as well as a real role model for all military personnel. Good conversationalist, too.
You do what your training teaches you to do. That goes for any servicemember and gender is not a factor in limitation.
I'd like to see this asswipe's military service resume--I imagine it started with a bucket of toy soldiers, and ended when his GI Joe slipped behind the radiator and melted one cold winter day.
Chickenhawk!!! Putz!
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