human lives are equal

but individuals have different strengths and weaknesses

involved in WHAT exactly?

Yep....and women have strengths that apply somewhere...just not in a Marine Corps Infantry unit.....unless its an all female Marine Corps infantry unit. Of course, THAT infantry unit wouldnt be as effective as an all male infantry unit.

The basic PT tests for men and women are even different.....hell, females dont even fo pull ups...they do a flexed arm hang.
http://m.military.com/military-fitness/marine-corps-fitness-requirements/usmc-pft-charts

I think a problem arises when the woman is captured and inevitably, repeatedly raped. The enemy, these days, has a very low opinion of women.

Do both genders get training for that situation?

I did answer

I said MEN made the rules

its like using the fact that in the middle east women cant drive as proof that they are therefore bad drivers,,,lol

because a rule has been implemented isn't proof that the rule has good reason

This sexist/homophobic garbage is so much tripe it would be funny if it were not so ridiculous.

There are a lot of qualities that determine fitness for duty and who could and should be in in a combat theater and the best professional to do the job. Size and brute strength has not been and never will be the single factor; and if that were the case some of the smaller size male Marines would have never been in the Ranks either.

Those who think that men and women can not train together, fight together, and yes live together with out sexualizing each other are the same kind of perverts that say the few that use sexual abuse of children as and irresistible urge as justification. Many men, and women, understand the sacrifices of privacy in situations they either choose to serve together or are forced to by circumstances to endure and just as often over come the enemy. Are they aware of gender, well duh yea, but so are the those who have served for generations and were attracted to same gender and did not act on that either. At least at not such a level as to impede the mission. And those in command and leadership positions will tell you, any day of the week, it is not the gender of the soldier but their ability to put the mission first.

I dare say, from experience, that it does not downgrade the ability of either gender; except for those few bad apples that want it to be used for their own selfish advantage over others. And in fact actually make the units stronger both mentally and physically. And in some ways smaller soldiers weather male or female are actually better at certain tactics, and surviving certain situations. This has been proven historically over and over. In militias all over the world.

If you actually have been in real combat or life and death situations females are just as fierce and just as capable as males to resist and overwhelm as men.

I dare say I am a much better marksman, able to defend myself by tactics and self defense/attack/survival skills as the majority of men. And I know my ability to think and survive my situation on my wits, stamina, cunning, and experience is better than many men.

Who are you answering? Conrad or my post above? If the latter, its a ridiculous answer....not surprising, but ridiculous, just the same.

You know, I would LOVE for you to meet a few friends of mine (all female) who served in front line type positions (such as with marine infantry units). Everyone is entitled their individual opinion, but you really do need to wake up and realize that you are in the 21st century now, not the dark ages. Discrimination IS being put to rest, slowly but surely, this is not going to stop.