The only thing now based on merit alone in universities is award of an athletic scholarship.
LOL, no kidding. I am surprised that is still a valid statement, but athletics are big bucks, and we don’t want to risk that.
But letting people into areas of expertise on the basis of their skin color or sex, where they could cause the loss of life, such as a combat situation? Well, blood is not worth as much as athletics, that’s for sure.
As a society, we have already decided that DEI and affirmative action is more important than people’s lives, so women who cannot do a fireman carry of a 250 pound person have had the standards lowered so they can be put into that position, so that has to be endured, and hope you aren’t the 250 person who needs carrying.