If you've already forgotten then you should be celebrating since it's news to you.

Did I miss your story?

What a pity that the infantry tends to rely on physical strength. Looks like reality has brutalized another fine theory.

Can I get the same deal from you? You already owe me one.

I think if you examine the presence of women in most special forces type units what you will generally find is that they didn't go through the same selection and training process as the primary members of the force. What often happens is that they are either in an attached element with different standards for entry, or in a headquarters or some other element. Many women have proven to be highly capable and resilient in those roles, but that isn't quite the same thing as having passed the same selection and training process as the men there. I'm glad they are there though as long as they are employed wisely.

Women did well as snipers, pilots, anti-aircraft, and many other duties for the Soviets. They were used as infantry at times, and they were removed from that role as soon as the Soviets could manage as I recall. The Soviet war effort, not to mention the US and UK war effort, would have been greatly weakened without the participation of women. That still doesn't mean that general purpose infantry is a good place to use them, and there are very few women that really have an interest in it.

No women have come close to passing the Marine Infantry Officer Course. A minor percentage of women have passed the Marine enlisted basic infantry course. Unfortunately that course is indeed only the basic level, and further skills and training are needed at the unit. Infantry combat units need to be able to fight a Fallujah, Hue, or Stalingrad for day after day, month after month. The 30 day experiments or 60 day schools used to justify this aren't necessarily going to reveal the point where the serious failures occur.

Why do you think an entire institution should be changed for a rare exception? You do realize there are many implications from that, don't you? Dimensions and weight of equipment and weapons, uniforms, allocations of supply, and much more.

And don't forget this - what is merely allowed in peacetime may become mandatory in a major war. Women haven't been included in the draft, but put them in the infantry now, and they may end up being disadvantaged cannon fodder in a future war without a choice. yay! equality! (When will men start having babies to rebuild a ravaged population?)

Perhaps you may want to ponder the words of these two female Marines.

Get Over It! We Are Not All Created Equal, by By Capt Katie Petronio

Why Women Do Not Belong in the U.S. Infantry - Marine infantry isn’t broken, it doesn’t need to be “fixed”, by Capt Lauren F. Serrano

Did you miss the statement of where they were from and the quotation marks?

Unfortunately your only point to make a choice tends to be before that happens. There have been plenty of robberies that ended with the killing of the victim, sometimes en mass. You won't get a chance to write a note to your past self and suggest being armed on that particular night.

So was I. Hint: look for quotation marks.

I'll be sure to pass your comments to NPR and the Washington Post where the excerpts came from.

I thought Breathed tended to be both more good natured and fairly even handed in poking fun at people. Doonesbury, not quite so much in either respect.

Or use night vision devices, or counter-air drones with sensors. You're a few options short.

Naturally you don't consider Basque separatists or Islamist terrorists, both of which have a history of terrorist attacks in Spain.

There are indeed various flavours of correlation, many of which I doubt you intend to reference:

Stupid thugs intent on rape, robbery, and mayhem that run into armed octogenarians.
Antigun nuts.
Nutters that think that guns are magic and are capable of turning honest, decent ordinary citizens into thugs, murderers, and thieves.

Do you think it is stupid to protect yourself with a gun from the powerful and violent, or packs of predators?

Indeed. I find there is much powerful magic in:
#!/bin/ksh or #!/bin/bash or even: cc
In the arcane tongue:
#!/bin/perl

Women and various flavors of handicapped don't tend to make the best general purpose infantry. Most countries that have tried it end the practice as soon as possible. There are also drawbacks of their employment in some related fields.

Your statement seems to be a little confused. Were you on the 57 state tour with the President?

These problems were created over a period of years, exacerbated by poor and uneven budgeting, congressional pork and mandates, and red tape. The only way this could have been averted in some fashion would have been if some company had offered for sale:

Robert Byrd Office
Robert Byrd Antivirus
Robert Byrd Internet
Robert Byrd Web Proxy
Robert Byrd Total Security

Fixing it will likely take years.