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I believe this is the best paragraph and explains what so many are trying to say. This is not about equality but standards which are designed to ensure safety, quality and assure that people can succeed without putting others and themselves in danger.
Get Over It! We Are Not All Created Equal | Marine Corps Gazette
Finally, what are the Marine Corps standards, particularly physical fitness standards, based onperformance and capability or equality? We abide by numerous discriminators, such as height and weight standards. As multiple Marine Corps Gazette articles have highlighted, Marines who can run first-class physical fitness tests and who have superior MOS proficiency are separated from the Service if they do not meet the Marine Corps height and weight standards. Further, tall Marines are restricted from flying specific platforms, and color blind Marines are faced with similar restrictions. We recognize differences in mental capabilities of Marines when we administer the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery and use the results to eliminate/open specific fields. These standards are designed to ensure safety, quality, and the opportunity to be placed in a field in which one can sustain and succeed.
Which once again leads me, as a ground combat-experienced female Marine Corps officer, to ask, what are we trying to accomplish by attempting to fully integrate women into the infantry? For those who dictate policy, changing the current restrictions associated with women in the infantry may not seem significant to the way the Marine Corps operates. I vehemently disagree; this potential change will rock the foundation of our Corps for the worse and will weaken what has been since 1775 the worlds most lethal fighting force
Get Over It! We Are Not All Created Equal | Marine Corps Gazette