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Having been in uniform I can tell you that:
Women and men are really well and truly vastly different physically in as much as women honestly CAN'T do some of the same tasks militarily as men.
CAN'T.
Yes, that is read correctly.
In teh physical fitness test, there are different standards for men and women.
In combat situations, those differences are magnified.
The ability to run 2 miles under a certain time is a measure of endurance.
The standards for women are far lower than those for men.

In combat, men will try to 'make up the difference' in performance to the detriment of the mission.
Not to knock women in uniform, I have no problem with that.
It's just fact, plain and simple.
Closing one's eyes and saying "There is no difference" is insane and foolish.
Women do not belong in combat, period.
Want to know why?
Everyone who has experimented with mixed sex units has had to spin off single sex units to prevent one thing from happening:
The men will try to 'take a bullet' for the women simply because the women are WOMEN.
That endangers the mission.
Yes, you cover your buddies in combat, but you don't do stupid stuff like make a target of yourself to do so.

What really needs to be done is to remove the hands form the eyes and stop repeating the false mantra of "There is no differnece between the sexes" and honestly look at fact.
If there truly were no differences in performance, then the APFT wouldn't have different standards for women and men.

"Closing one's eyes and saying "There is no difference" is insane and foolish."

The feminists are not in the field. They have another agenda. They dont care if it risks lives. They've pushed equality in other areas that hurts in many other ways.

Here is a better plan: The rest of the country butt out of military standards, and let the US military decide who they need and what standards to apply, with one goal: Do what is best for our national security.