The women i served with were fit and strong enough for combat in the front lines. Woman can't do this and that is an attitude that should end, it's basically Gender-discrimination. Even the viking-women were warriors equal to men. This thread should be deleted right now. It's full of ignorance and hate and no mod should allow this ignorant-discrimination. Women got their own advantages that is as valuable as the advantages men have, even in war and in the front-lines, as long as the women just as the men managed to pass through the training and the test's, they have earned the rights equally with the men. The end.

And when you're on the front lines, you also need to have the ability to carry other people in case they get injured. It's not just a matter of being able to carry X pounds of equipment.

What's up with you guys and political correctness? Is that what you call everything that goes against your beliefs?

Read this instead of making up assumptions: http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/09/27/army-denies-that-ranger-school-was-fixed-so-women-could-pass.html

Just to let you know, war is usually politically correct. You have to make a positive ID before you engage, you don't mistreat prisoners of war, you don't use chemical/biological weapons, etc...

Yes, that is exactly how war goes down... grow up. Pretty much everything that backs up the "reasons" of a war is usually for facade. You dont mistreat pow's? You dont use WMD's? Really? Is that what you see on news every day?

No, I wont back this claim up with any links, as a google search will give you plenty to back up my claims.

What war were WMD  used after the Geneva convention? 

What war as well were POW consistently mistreated systematically?

Sure you won't provide me with a link, it would get in your way.

I'm grown, thanks for the suggestion.

Here's the thing though, standards set minimum requirements. If all the male candidates have higher scores than the females then the females should never have an opportunity. Instead, we'll have lawsuits. Female candidates will claim gender bias when passed up over and over again when their male counterparts best them and point to passing the standards as their argument. 

"Your honor, all of these women passed the fitness tests and none of them were granted the opportunity to serve in this unit. Clearly there is deep pathological sexism in the military."

Wasnt just yesterday a chemical attack in Allepo? Isnt HRW attacking the US, its allies and pretty much every nation of mistreating POW's? But just for fun, here, some of the first findings:

http://europe.newsweek.com/isis-carries-out-chemical-weapon-attack-syrian-army-state-news-agency-444213?rm=eu

https://www.rt.com/news/338847-shocking-images-sheikh-maqsood/

https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/12/09/usa-and-torture-history-hypocrisy

These were literally the first results that I came upon. But I am sure you wont need a "let me google it for you" link if you want more.