scipioafricanus wrote:Fine, abolish the dual PT requirements. Everyone takes the [strike]same[/strike] male test.
SA
FIFY.
In 45 minutes, you have exactly 27 females left in the entire US military.
Including precisely none at the service academies.
You explain to the ones remaining that they can do any job they want, but that there will no longer be separate-sex barracks/berthing or bathroom facilities, including in the field.
And that they will be assigned to combat arms and combat billets in the exact same ratio that men are service-wide.
By T+30" you have returned the military to a one-sex organization, using a single standard that's equally fair to everyone.
You tell the really butch Gender Warriors agitating from the outside they are free to become Girl Scout troop leaders, and let the military get back to fighting wars.
And remind them that the only jobs women are biologically better-suited for than men are birthing babies and nursing infants, neither of which specialties represent any current MOS nor military requirements.
Concurrently, you rename DoD back to the War Department.
If they have any jobs open to women, they are free to be employed by the War Department as
civilian employees there, to include stateside clerks and jerks, and hospital nursing staff.
And just to make things sporty, all military commands have to institute a
voluntary quarterly 10K run on a weekend, led without exception by the respective one-, two-, three-, and four-star general/flag rank leaders.
In any command where the leader in question doesn't complete the run, or that doesn't muster >51% overall turnout and >80% officer turnout, that general officer is cashiered on the spot for leadership failure.
Thus endeth the era of political appointee generals.
Next problem.
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