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    Quote Originally Posted by Granite_State View Post
    Never mind that the physical concerns with integration pale in comparison to those of cohesion, fraternization, pregnancy, and injury. Tell your tale of exoskeletons and miniaturization to:
    -A soldier from the 101st Airborne in the Korengal.
    -A Marine from 3/1 in Fallujah.
    -Any soldier or Marine jumping or climbing up a canal with a 25 pound ECM on his back.

    This revolt against reality will end about one week in to a real war.
    You mean, a "real war" like the Eastern Front in WWII?

    Yeah. Gotta have a dick to kill Germans with an 11 pound rifle.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko

    Your apocryphal soldier and Marine were handicapped by a system where their physical size and strength were more important than their war fighting ability. It astonishes me how people who've served can work up the motivation to oppose females being "allowed" to serve in combat units, yet cannot get worked up about the chain of leadership failures that led to the above mentioned scenarios.

    Note that the NVA didn't burden it's infantry with crap. Neither did the Japanese in WWII. Nor do the guys killing our guys in Korengal or in Fallujah.
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