A rational voice which one would hope will be heard by the social engineering gurus driving the Pentagon bus.
Then again, maybe not. It’s a long article, the author has been there, done that, and understands that it just isn’t right.
She says, “…this potential change will rock the foundation of our Corps for the worse and will weaken what has been since 1775 the world’s most lethal fighting force.”
Here here and harrumph.
http://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/article/get-over-it-we-are-not-all-created-equal
I used to hear all sorts of arguments from some people in my `former life` of police tactical firearms ops. about how we can’t have females in the unit. “Their hands are too small for our handguns”; “They can’t wear one piece coveralls on account of they can’t pee standing up” (no mention of those occasions when whatever the plumbing, we all have to squat sometimes). The solutions were, to me as the head of training and ops, simple: If the officer can pass the course, I’ll get the kit that fits and if a job comes up that a woman just cannot do, she won’t get to do it.
Closing comment on the debate was always along the lines of, “when I need a male/female mix for a street surveillance job, where two or more men together would stand out like a bulldogs balls, which one of you is prepared to dress up like a woman and pass the scrutiny test`?