Women in the Infantry

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Women in Infantry This has been a long-filled debate on whether women should be able to serve in the Infantry. In the military, there are double standards for women and men, but what are we going to do? Are we going to change the standards for women to get in? Are we going to ‘let it slip’ to weaken the infantry? There are many good arguments on both sides. They feel that there are plenty of suitable roles in the military for women. This issue is very divisive and most people have strong and well set opinions that fall clearly on one side of the debate or the other. Women shouldn’t serve in combat positions because of physical, physiological, political reasons, and the men in the infantry are just too immature to handle it. What about the women who are physically fit for the infantry? There are some women that are physically fit and could handle the ruggedness of the infantry, but there very few and far in between. I believe that if the military officials do change the law, we would have a mass of women joining the infantry just to try and prove a point. Then our infantry would be flooded with that group of women even though it may not be the right job for them. There’s a lot of statistical data supporting that the average man has more muscle mass than the average women; men are taller, bigger, have more upper-body strength. I know that not all men in the infantry are six foot, 200 pounds, but there all strong enough to lug over 100 pounds on their body for a long period of time. I personally never worked with the women in the military, but I know many who have and they have all said that they are continually falling out of hikes, passing off weapons and packs because they can’t hack it. In the infantry, we rely on each other for our life. If you can’t trust the person behind you to have your back, then you would be constantly looking over your shoulder and

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