Red Alert!
All us wimmin’ folk will jis stay home here and have babies while all you big, strong men go off and fight the wars. Oh, yes, we’ll defend ourselves while you’re gone, cos some of us are pretty damn good with a gun, and fight like wildcats. And we do not fight fair. But that’s ok, you go off and us brood mares will just sit here. And we’ll fix the tractors, put up the hay, keep the coyote population down, ...you know, all that stuff we shouldn’t be able to do cos we are shorter and thinner than you. And when you get home, you’ll see we did just fine without you. Right down to fixin’ the truck! Which isn’t to say that we don’t need you or want you, it’s to say that we can take care of ourselves, our family and our property. but then, we’re just girls, right?
Talk about missing the point.
This is Marine Infantry Training, not Marine Infantry Logistics Training.
Expeditionary missions, limited support in the field, highly independent, high exposure to enemy forces, highly mobile, outfitted with 65 to 120 lbs of personal gear, probability of hand-to-hand combat is between 30 to 50%.
Either put them in the rear with the gear, or you deploy them behind enemy lines individually or in very small teams.
As another said, way to miss the point.
“Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved. But if you fail to save the women and children, you’ve had it, you’re done, you’re through! You join Tyrannosaurus Rex, one more breed that bilged its final test.” - R.A.Heinlein