User blog comment:Griever0311/Ask A Marine Part По-русски/@comment-1260687-20100323233923

@Jaun Jose Rodriquez: With a few small exceptions, most of the females I've operated with were outperformed in every way that matters by their male counterparts. I've seen a worrying trend in the military of a policy of modifying and adjusting training to compensate for females, and it's a terrible idea to compromise combat effectiveness just so some females can play soldier. As I said, not all of them are like that, but it's a vast minority. On average, most of them can't run as fast, carry as much weight, maintain the same endurance, hit as hard, soak up trauma, or absorb recoil as well as males can. Any one of those things is lethal in a gunbattle. Even when they're skilled shooters, the other aspects are still neglected; my girlfriend was as accurate as I was with a few of the machine guns we used on the trucks, but she couldn't keep up with me anywhere else. They're fine for flying helos and fixed wing, or driving trucks or filling admin/logistics positions, but there's only a select handful (could count them on one hand) that I met in 4+ years that I'd trust on the front lines.