I can think of one reason and one reason only it would be beneficial to a grunt to have women in a CW environment.......and that is to to hope she gets hypothermia so you can strip her down, strip yourself down and climb in a sleeping bag with her in order to get her core temp back up.
Okay, maybe two reasons; you can claim frostbite and stick your hands under her armpits to warm your fingers back up.
However, even that isn't worth the headache and backache of carrying her gear the rest of the op.
we’re doing mountain and Arctic warfare and we had a woman with us.
I had to write a report on how those days went to the higher ups.
She was on her period and we had an animal following us, bad news.
Out there we have to carry more than usual, she could nto carry half and the men had to carry her kit which was a disgrace but the only way to move forward on the patrols.
She was always flirting and caused some tension in the ranks .
She ran out of energy, she couldn;t even dig her own snow hole those nights which meant other men had to do her job.
It was a diseaster and I said so in my report and guess what I bet that report was ripped up because it seems some Generals and other higher ups care about their jobs and prmotions than the country or the service we serve.
Once we got back to Tromso in north Norway as a base she did nothing but flirt, caused a distraction for the men, wanted special rights and not even do her own cleaning of her kit.
We had one guy who was cleaning her kit and rifle to which I put a stop to that.
Today this day I do not know why but I swear on my life women in the front lines should not be there.
Today they still do not do the same tests as men, in the marines they only have to do one pull up, to graduate they only have to do two pulls ups.
That is a joke and then some wonder why there are more suicides in the military.
We are taking in people, women and some men who should not be in the service , let alone on the front lines.
openly serving homosexuals, cross dressers and now women who do not do the same test to get in, what a farce they have turned the military in and lets not forget the PC crap either, 170 pound women at 5 foot 4 inches getting in the infantry is a joke.
I met one marines recruiter who was nothing but a PC turd and tried to tell me how he guarded the President for 4 years and how he was qualified, \