Should Women be Allowed in Special Operations Units?

Same here

Great point I guess it's because of the more direct action related missions and training pipelines that bring about these concerns not saying I dont agree with you I firmly believe that there are many women in our armed forces that deserve to be in the special operations community I just the other side of the argument as well.

Yep, and they mostly performed espionage. Given that fact, there really isn't any comparison to what the women did in the OSS and SOE during WWII and the physical requirements that are expected of modern SOF today. I have said it before, and I will say it again, the average women cannot compete with the average man physically, and an exceptional woman will not be able to compete with an exceptional man physically. In other words, in a job where physical strength and endurance matters, the best women will never be the best soldier, sailor, airman or Marine in those kinds of SOF units. Nor will the resources expended to recruit, assess, train, and graduate the extremely limited number of women who will pass the course and actually reach a unit. Not to mention that if a woman gets pregnant she is essentially on a profile for a year riding a desk instead of serving on a team, which are already chronically undermanned (pun intended). There there are a host of cultural issues that have to be addressed. For example, no female Green Beret Captain will ever be able to successful serve in an train and advise capacity for let's say a proxy or indigenous force consisting of conservative Sunni Muslims from a country where women have a very defined social role. Then there is the fact that......