Here are just a couple of blurbs from the MoD in the United Kingdom Report on Women in the Armed Forces (2002') that was reviewed in 2010'-Page 4, Paragraph 10, 11 from the Summary Report. The test compared women and men side by side and did not change the standards for their Infantryman Tasks.
Physiological Factors
10. The physical capacities demanded of personnel serving in close combat roles are necessarily high. Any reduction in standards would pose unacceptable risks to the operational effectiveness of our forces, and must therefore be avoided. The physical tests taken by potential recruits measure their ability to carry out the tasks that they will be required to perform after appropriate training. The testing standards that are set are justified by the demands of the job.
11. The Women in the Armed Forces report examined the differences in the physical abilities of men and women which are relevant to military performance and observed, unsurprisingly, that they differ significantly. Differences between women and men in their capacity to develop muscle strength and aerobic fitness are such that only approximately 1% of women can equal the performance of the average man. In lifting, carrying and similar tasks performed routinely by the British Army, this means that, on average, women have a lower work capacity than men and, when exposed to the same physical workload as men, have to work 50-80% harder to achieve the same results. This puts them at greater risk of injury. In load marching, another fundamental military task, and in all other simulated combat tasks, women were found to perform worse than men, and the greater the load, the greater the discrepancy. The study concluded that about 0.1% of female applicants and 1 % of trained female soldiers would reach the required standards to meet the demands of these roles.
There is loads of information out there on the increased numbers of ortho injuries, the unit cohesion problems (you will have folks having sex when they should be working and lose about 10% of your female force to pregnancy, the branches average between 9-15% losses for pregnancy of female military service members), loads of info about the differences physically and now even the genetic differences that cause higher rates of PTSD in females. No, this is not close to black integration, not a lot of losses due to pregnancy, no rise in ortho injuries due to actual physical differences the women have, etc....etc...the comparison is a false one.
The average female soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine is about five inches shorter than her male counterpart and has half the upper body strength, lower aerobic capacity (at her physical peak between the ages of 20 and 30, the average woman has the aerobic capacity of a 50-year-old male), and 37 percent less muscle mass. She has a lighter skeleton, which means that the physical strain on her body from carrying the heavy loads that are the lot of the infantryman may cause permanent damage.
Mother Nature is wise. Socio - political tacit must not try to explain away innate physiological deficiency since National Security is at stake.
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