Reply #50: I'm going to be considered a sexist

[jmowreader]

The Canadian Army did a test in either the 1980s or 1990s--I got this information off a Canadian soldier, and that was a long time ago...There were women's groups in Canada claiming women should be in the infantry, that they could do anything men could, all that. The Canadian Army said, okay prove it. They recruited 200 women for a female infantry test platoon and sent them through the Canadian Infantry School. The catch was, they required the women to meet the same standards as the men if they wanted to graduate as infanteers--the new non-gender-specific term for grunts. At the end of the training, three women walked across the stage at graduation. Three out of two hundred.

If the US Army decided to bring women into the infantry, the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service (DACOWITS) would start demanding quotas--25 percent of all infantry soldiers will be women, say. This will cause the Army to lower standards to meet the quota set by outside forces, like they've done every fucking time someone imposes a number on them. Next thing you know you've got women showing up at Fort Benning who absolutely should not be there, but who Fort Benning can't drop and send to a more suitable career field because DA is on their ass about putting women in line units.

There are combat jobs a woman can do. Women would make good forward observers and air defense artillery soldiers. But humping a ruck all day as a grunt? No.