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week." Ms. Faulkner, fighting back tears, explained that two
and a half years of stress had "all crashed in" on her in the first days there.
After not quite making the cut, and surviving the stress and trials of these
places, they say that it is because the men were too hard on them. "Too hard"
is not a valid sentence in the military, you are either tough enough or you
fail.
I am not a sexist, don't get me wrong. I know many woman who are my
intellectual superiors whom I admire. I have even met a few that I probably
would not want to mess with. What I am trying to show is that while in some
cases they can function in combat; they are, for the most part, detrimental
to military efficiency.
Chairman of the Department of Military Science at the University of
Michigan, who conducted a test of Army officer candidates, and found that: The
top 20 percent of women at West Point achieved scores on the Army Physical
Fitness Test equivalent to the bottom 20 percent of male ...

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