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That's just another example of the thing, not a why. The bullets don't care who fires them or who they hit.

Bullets might not care but you would if you had been a woman and made to unload a truck of 40 lbs ammo crates. Also carrying 90 lbs of load out (some of which are also bullets) feels very different. You also seem to overlook demographic implications of sending 18 y.o. women to war or just keeping them from starting family. Especially during war time, when you already lose population.

Unless you are an elite athlete I assure you that there are many women out there who can lift more, with better endurance, than you or I.

If I had to choose to be in a foxhole with a fit 20 year old woman or a flabby 35 year old man, I'm choosing the woman every time. (Even the new, stricter, US military fitness standards are not that hard to meet for either gender)

Statistically there are very few women out there that can lift even same as an average man. Even a 55 y.o. overweight man is statistically stronger and has more endurance than an average 20 years old woman.

The US combat fitness standard is a 155lb 3-rep max deadlift. That's trivial for every woman I know who lifts.

Perhaps we should amend the law and make every woman you know who lifts to register for SSS.

If you're going to keep conscription around, that would be my opinion.

I don't understand what any of that has to do with passports.

Field military service is predominantly hard physical labor, so it's exactly an example "why"

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