“When as kids as soon as the boys were seeing we were winning they started to change the rules.”
Ummmmm...they didn’t change the rules because you were “winning.” They changed them because you couldn’t measure up to the men’s standards. That was feminazi writ large.
Travis, one of my dearest friends is a three time purple heart recipient (two of his wounds should have killed him) in Viet Nam, and a Ranger. He’s a compact man, but one of the sweetest, most thoughtful, guys, and one of the biggest badass men I’ve ever met.
Large soldiers can talk all day long about how strong and tough small male soldiers are, it is something to see and they tend to be tough as nails.
By the way, I don’t know the current American wisdom, but long muscled, less bulky soldiers used to be seen (generally) as the most successful for Special Operations units.