makes one truly wonder what goes through the mind of most "amerikans" these days. clearly capt petronio is right, the stresses of combat assignments are not to be taken lightly and the physical toll on a woman's body can be catastrophic, as happened to her. war is, and should be, the tool of last resort, having exhausted all other options of diplomacy. although the asylum states of amerika treats war as a video game to be played endlessly throughout their lives. the larger question one should ask is why any sane, rational, intelligent woman thinks it is her "right" to "kill" alongside men anyway?

the problem with the whole "standards" argument is that infantry does not unto itself have any real set standards reflective of the job that one has to meet before they join. a woman who can ace the men's version of the marine corps physical fitness test or the men's version of the army's pft for the 18-24 year-old group will just have shown herself to be able to do lots of pushups, pullups, situps, and the ability to run three miles fairly quickly. that says nothing about the job of the infantry, which also entails carrying very heavy loads on the body for extended periods of time, which destroys a woman's body (destroys a man's over time). the standard combat load for an 82nd airborne division infantryman in iraq was 130 lbs for example. this woman laid out, in detail, from actual experience, what male infantry soldiers have been trying to explain for many years. being able to "meet the standards" to be infantry doesn't really mean one has actually met the standards required to be infantry.