This ONE post says it all. MY ship, 1955 in Yokusaka Harbor, Japan.
One WWII vet, in the shower we all looked away. Upper torso 90% burned to point couldn’t look. All surface burns.
American aircraft carrier, hit by Kamikaze and afire beyond control. This KID, age then 19, FOUR time went down into a burning inferno to rescue 3 sailors and 1 that dies of burns a hour later. Decorated.
Which of the combat ladies could carry ONE burn victim up 2 flaming decks, let alone go back and go back again?
Let alone carry a wounded buddy through ground fire?
I remember they had to do away with the fireman carry when the decision was made to allow women firefighters. Now they drag the victim. No one will ever bve able to explain to me how draging burned sailors up ship ladders and through hatches could ever work. I could not begin to count the ways a woman would fail during the first two minutes of the general quarter drills our ship went through in REFTRA.