Female Veteran Explains why she is against women in combat units

I don't know about this I mean women fought in the PKK (Kurdish Militia),Spanish Republican army (Spanish Civil War), Red Army (WW2) and in the North Vietnamese Army extensively.

Well, sure. If you're desperate enough, you'll put a gun in anyone's hands. Hell, the Red Army put people in the field that didn't even have guns and basically told them to try to find a weapon on a corpse, if they could. Those armies didn't choose to put women on the front lines because they believed in some broader notion of sexual egalitarianism. They did it because they had very little choice. The USA doesn't actually need to put women on the battlefield if we don't choose to.

I think it has to do with the way Western Army's (USA mostly) does supplies because the carrying around 100 lb packs with Body armor is a relative new thing and even with the "guys" its fucking up their backs.

Seriously, what the fuck? You think Roman Centurions didn't carry 100 lbs of "body armor" into the field? Hint, they did. It was called "armor" and that shit was made of steel and bronze. Also, they had to carry actual food and water, because they didn't have huge logistical pipelines featuring helicopters and trucks that could ferry in large amounts of provisions.

Every army ever has sent troops into the field with huge packs of supplies. That's how armies work. And, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but "fucking up their backs" would have been considered a pleasant alternative to any of a wide variety of horrible fates in the past. E.g., in the American Civil War 2/3rds of the casualties were to diseases like typhoid and dysentery. I don't know if you've really processed what it means to die of dysentery before, but "literally shit yourself to death" and "fucked up your back" don't really seem comparable.

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