Putting women into combat for political reasons is one thing. But they need to be held to the same physical standards as men to go into a combat MOS. Putting the men, not to mention the women, into harms way because some members of a combat unit are not up to the physical standards is plain stupidity. Being out there is dangerous enough, without having politics force less physically capable people into the battlefield, endangering the lives of themselves and those around them. If women can pass the physical standards that are the same as men to go into combat, great! But do not lower the standards and put lives at risk just for politics.



