In the US Army, women are barred from being in the Infantry or Infantry-based units (Ranger, SF, etc) as anything other than support.
Apparently the front-line knuckle draggers can't keep their dicks in their pants with females working beside them.
Engineer units do just fine.
Those female medivac pilots that are flying in to pick up those infantry - do just fine.
Those female medics - do just fine.
Those Electronic Warfare helicopter backseats (predominantly female), flying
waaaay forward of the FLOT (front line) .. do just fine.
Realistic reasons why we don't have females in our infantry;
1) The infantry is generally a young man's game. 18-21 year old kids that think with their dicks at least as much as their heads. The other branches are slightly older on average, and just barely more mature. This little bit is the critical difference.
2) Infantry instills a competitive, aggressive, Type-A, meat-eater mentality. You get them fired up, blood flowing, and competitive - they're gonna want to either fuck something or kill something. The latter is the job of the Infantry - the former.. not so much.
Last edited by rdx-fx (2008-11-15 11:07:28)