"Though the armed services have promised that combat standards will be the same regardless of gender, senior officers are considering initially separate training systems...

“We don’t start teaching the [occupations] there. Our boot camp is about the transformation of individuals, men and women, from being a civilian to being a United States Marine,” he said.

He continued by saying that “They need to be nurtured different,” but assuring listeners that, “They end up in the same place, the United States Marines.”

While the Marines were the first service to allow women to serve in combat roles, they were expected to undergo the same officer combat qualification course as men.

Of the six women who entered, all have dropped out due to injury or failure."

[link to dailycaller.com]

I leave you all to draw your own conclusions about the place of women in the combat zone.