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  11. A woman would not be able to do the job we did in Recon or on Sniper teams. The Russians employed women in WWII because they were running out of young male bodies at alarming rates, but they never carried the amount of gear that US Snipers carry. If you ever look at a mission ruck, it will crush your soul to lift it, let alone carry it all day, all night, day-after-day. It’s just not a reality for the weak. I never met a female soldier who could even draw certain weapons from the arms room (Mk.19, M2 .50 BMG). The weight of several of the crew-served weapons exceeds women’s upper body strength. Just to load those weapons onto vehicles is beyond what I’ve seen any female soldier be able to do.  For the Sniper skill set, if you look at movement, hide site construction, living in a hide (not shown in this short video), working out of it, or supporting the line companies with advanced TGT Recce, humping alongside the support-by-fire position guys on gun teams, and doing general light infantry work, it’s just not for most men, let alone women. A great example of all this is the fact that you don’t see women clamoring to or being steered into 11C MOS (Mortarman). Those were the only dudes I saw who had as heavy rucks as ours. Imagine strapping a mortar base plate to the outside of your ruck, while also having to carry rounds, the tripod, firing tables, sector stakes, radios, batteries, water, broken-down meals, and no room for personal gear. On top of that, line dogs will have to carry mortar rounds and drop them off at the mortar position before moving into position before actions-on. A lot of times, the line platoons will not pick up their mortar rounds because of the pace of the movement, so the mortar guys get stuck with all the additional rounds. It freaking blows, but men have performed this type of extreme endurance work over the centuries. Women and weaker males just can’t do it. If you look at rucks carried by infantry, combat engineers, combat medics, snipers, mortarmen, and RTOs, you would be setting a unit up for complete failure if you relied on weak males and women to do those duty positions. It’s not bigotry or anything like that, just the brutal, harsh reality of extreme physical pain that only a small number of people can endure and excel at.
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