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Also for all the people who think its just about the physical it's not. To try and explain it terms people with no military background or even those that do have a basic military background. Imagine going for your m.d. Or law degree and then being deprived of food shelter and sleep while having the **** smoked out of you and making judgement calls with lives In the balance while also supporting your fellow classmates so they don't fail.
It's still not all the training they will get one assigned to a ranger or seal unit. Like was mentioned before, not all who attend the school will be assigned to a ranger battalion (tabbed & scrolled). Some will take what they learned in the school (tabbed) and take it back to their regular units to be leaders and teachers. The ones who stay in batt are the best of the best and learning never ends but they are part of something very special and historic and a family that's close for life.
I think it's good that women have great qualities as women and men have qualities that make men men. The two are made different for a reason because in life they compliment each other. But I think women are not as well designed to handle mental and physical stresses combined as men. So it's much more than just about how many sit-ups they can do or how far you can run. The standards of just what an average soldier must hump on a march is higher in real life than what the manual says and now put them in a special operations unit and it goes up even more. Most women are just not built big enough structurally to maintain these standards. It's a physical improbability based on design. Not impossible but improbable. I think women who try it at not only going to dor but they are going to get hurt badly which in the end cost the tax payors money.
If they make it through with the same standards then give it to them, but still do you let them into a battalion? Or just let them go back to their unit. I still say NO women in battalion in that capacity. Nor SEAL units.
Given the rigors of such service, PROVIDED THAT DOUBLE STANDARDS ARE NOT ESTABLISHED FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES, in the event that any of this becomes a problem, it should be self-curing probably before entry into a critical situation. Regardless of one's preferences, objective standards (of the type that most people on both sides of the issue don't like) are the best bet for building effective units.