Hi! I'm on submarines.
On the occassions where we've had female riders it's been... interesting.
I think the primary problem with mixing in the females is the disruption of the extremely juvenile comraderie that spawns in all-male environments. Given enough time the culture will adapt and we'll get back to the same juvenile bullshit thats fun for soldiers of all sexes, but until that adapatation occurs a fairly important aspect of stress relief and unit cohesion is lost.
Not only that, the guys that make the least effort to integrate females as just another member of the unit (i.e. the ONLY people integrating females as just another member fo the unit) are going to get sexual harrassment complaints. Leaving you with the coddlers, which are insidious, and the male chauvanists, which are annoying.
SO... yeah. We don't really have the opportunity for co-ed combat units to exist as anything other than your standard canine-equestrian events and find out how they'd work in the real world. I think they'd do fine once everyone got used to the idea and, like kids at a teenage dance, figured out how to act around each other.
NOW, on the subject of sexually segregated all-female combat units. Go for it, several times at once. No single test case that can be made to succeed or fail due to outside influence type stuff.
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Originally Posted by NCB
We just disagree then. I, someone who has actually served, do not want our girls on the front line. You, someone who has not served, want girls on the front line. Very courageous of you btw
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Currently serving.
I think you're an quaint old-fashioned fuddy duddy, too.