Killing yes, but as an ex-member of the Army Combat Arms (a Combat Engineer) almost all women are incapable of performing the tasks necessary to function on the modern battlefield. They lack the physical strength and endurance. If you had served, you would know that instead of offering ignorant opinions. One simple example, we used to routinely load ninety-pound bags of concrete into the bed of five-ton dump trucks. The bed of a five-ton dump is over five feet off the ground and we would spend hours loading bags. Another is that the combat load of an infantryman is between a hundred and a hundred fifty pounds. Basic body armor and helmet alone weigh ten pounds and that goes up if you add trauma plates and neck and arm protection. Another is that a discarding sabot 120mm tank round weighs forty-three and a half pounds and the minimum acceptable time to reload the gun is seven seconds from ejecting the shell stub to arming the gun after loading the next round. Women who can do that nine times a minute for any period of time are few and far between.
Reminds me of something my older son related from his first basic training experiences. He enlisted into the Army Reserve halfway through his Junior year in High School = Delayed Entry program, about 25 years ago. Though my son wanted to enlist for medic training, no slots were open so the recruiter talked him into going for Chemical Weapons/Warfare - supposedly close and transferable at later time.
So back then, "Combat Arms*" are: Infantry, Armor, Artillery. Supposedly male only MOS. Chemical Weapons(Warfare) being a "Combat Support Arm(type-organization-unit), and not a "front line combat" sort means that females could sign-up for the MOS in this branch. So my son goes to his first Basic Training where about 30-40% of his unit is female. The 'Female' get their own 'sleeping bay', 'Latrine', and 'Showers' - etc. on a separate floor in the Barracks, yet thy would muster in formation at the AM and march to class, drills, and other activities together.
So when it came to basic combat training, a few Differences begin to pop out!
1) Every soldier operating in the field is expected to be able to dig their own foxhole(pit) in the ground that will provide some protection from enemy fire; both direct and indirect. Seems most of the females in his basic training platoon aren't able to dig a hole in the ground fast enough and deep enough for the protection needed and per standard expectations. 'Their' Solution; entice one of their fellow Male troopers to finish digging such for them!
2) This one is a Classic, Basic, exercise that all combat(Infantry~grunt) should be able to do. The situation is your squad, moving down the road, takes fire and everyone dashes over to one side to take cover and return fire. However one of your team-mates is hit and lies in the middle of the road. The normal drill is for the squad to provide covering fire while one brave, speedy, strong member dashes out to grab the team-mate by his combat harness and drag him back under cover. This drill is done repeatedly until everyone has be the person to dash out, grab and drag back.
Most all guys can do this task. Very few females can do it, so it seems. Females often need another female to come out and help them get a grip and drag their comrade back to cover.
The point for consideration here is that instead of one team(squad) exposed to being hit and adding to the causality list, we have two (female) needed to perform the task and at risk (exposed) to add to the possible causality role.
Point here is that it's bad enough to unit safety and integrity to place women in "Combat Support Unit" roles where they could multiply the troop injury and hazard rates in an action. There's also the factor of morale impact when the guys on their side have to see and deal with the females being hit and mangled by modern weapons. They don't need the added complication of higher percentage of injured team-mates to deal with one stuff has hit the fan!
