Should women be allowed to have combat jobs in the military?

Should women be on our front lines in direct fire with our nation's enemies? Should they be allowed to try out for the world's elite special operations teams? Should we let them lead our troops into war?

Can a woman defeat a strong man in hand to hand combat? If a determined enemy who happens to be a man gets into a fight with one of our newly integrated infantry women, can she defeat him? I don't believe that a woman could win. She is physically weaker than him.

Can a woman lead a platoon of men into a firefight? If all hell is breaking loose, and there is a unit that is pinned down, I don't believe that a woman would have the courage to make tough choices.

Can a woman carry a man with a full combat load hundreds of yards to an extraction point? It is hard for men to carry others a far distance and men have strong muscles to do so. I find it hard to carry another person of the same weight as me 50 yards during training. I doubt that a woman can carry a man while under fire to safety.

Women are not as strong as men. The standards for men are higher than those for women. Men must do more push-ups, sit-ups, and have a faster 2 mile run time than women. How is a woman going to perform as well as a man in combat if they can't perform as well in physical training?

Men are struggling with log pt. In combat, when something must be moved that is as heavy as this log and a woman can't move it, will she just leave because it is too heavy, even if our national security is at risk by leaving an object in enemy territory?

In Ranger School, it took a woman 124 days to pass. A man on average takes less than 90. I don't think that many women will even make it into combat jobs. Only very strong women will pass things such as Ranger School.

Can a woman survive 6 months of SEAL training? Can a woman make it through hell week when almost no men do?

I think that women in the military is fine. They are great at being just about anything not relating to direct action. I don't think that they should be in combat roles with very tough men. I don't think that women have the strength or courage to ever lead men into battle. I believe that if we make women who can't pass without getting special treatment integrate for political reasons, our forces will be weakened. The Russians and the Islamic State have only men in combat, so why don't we only have men? We are ruining our military by forcing women, gays, and transgendered people into combat roles only to make politicians look good to some voters. In Russia and in the Middle East, gays and transgenders are thrown off of roofs and killed. If we keep pushing this agenda, we will never be able to win in a war with another world power or terrorist threat.

This topic affects me personally because I am enlisting in the Army and I will have to deal with women in combat during my career. I will have women in my classes for selection in special operations units. I have seen the quality of most women joining the Army first hand. Some of them whine and cry when the physical training is too hard for them. They hold the rest of us back when we go on runs and the women there can't run more than a half mile without carrying on and stopping to walk. The recruiters there make the good recruits run laps around those who are walking. When the women give up, the men are punished. I don't want the women to give up during combat and get the men killed.