Advice and thoughts on woman joining Infantry (11B)?

Experiences may vary in the infantry. Some guys I went through OSUT with have done and are still doing cool guy, high speed stuff and others are working in the company arms room pushing paper all day. If you want to get on the line and do grunt stuff but not be a full blown grunt, go 68W. If you are super athletic and high drive, and mentally bulletproof, go for it but if not, find a less demanding MOS and do great things within it.

Few things:

1. You need to want it! There is no other way.
2. Infantry’s job is to search and engage the enemy. As closed quarters as it gets! Anywhere, anytime, any condition.
3. Type A personality. Need to deal with it. Also, I’m combat arms there is absolutely no political correctness. You fit in or get run over.
4. You need to prove yourself. Everyday and every time.
5. Your body will take a beat. That’s a fact!
6. If up to the task, a very rewarding field.

No place for a woman in combat... NONE.... They'll get you killed... Men extend themselves to protect women whether they realize it or not...... and I don't want a woman watching my back..
The intentions may be honorable and heroic but they are left wanting physically...
If you want to complain then take it to Mother Nature...

If that's what you want to do, then TRAIN HARD!!!

My thoughts and advice would be send them packing... Behind the lines doing support...
No place for a woman in combat.. Contrary to popular opinion... Chivalry is not dead ... and it will get a guy killed ... Women have no place in combat... not the place to claim equality...

Mmmmmmmn. Do you want to be wacko! So ask yourself if you like to fight with soldiers or yell and hate each other every morning for pt. And then hold in your crap all day long during field operations. This is the first questions. Personally I love that stuff along with steroids. I like when my boobs get big like a females, then I stop using and turn it into muscle. I do believe the days of urinalysis could had used more observers so we didn’t have to hold it in quite as long.

I was valuable to my commanders, as an artist & always treated with utmost respect. That was in a time when a WAC transitioned into integrated, regular Army. DOA & Fort Bragg, N.C. were still deciding about female soldiers as paratroopers & slots were scant. I was in an ABN D-pack & when my 1SG & CO, placed me in the Motor Pool, as a PLL clerk, it was to keep me in their unit...protected by the TO&E, as a vital member of my pack. At nearly 37 yoa, that was a great honor & I always "pulled my own weight". Later, a similar, additional, verbal honor was conferred on me by a former CDR, while serving together, again in D.C. That meant more than anything, toward the end of my TOD. It was never easy & women's bones brittle with age may break...I attended PLDC in a soft cast & Graduated~! Think of my sadness had I not been giver a chance & tried~? The Army I loved with my whole heart, remains bonded forever~! I quote then 82nd Abn CDR MG Roscoe Robinson, in private conversation with XVIII CDR LTG Volney Warner..."give them a chance, if they can do the job".

As they say in New York; forgetaboutit.
Same goes for Armor.

It's hard. It breaks down physically outstanding Soldiers. If it's not your first choice, don't do it. If it is your first choice, you should seek to be the best. Become an Airborne Ranger Infantry Soldier.

By the way, you don't get to pick 11B. You pick 11X and you get either 11B or 11C.

it takes comment like anything else you could pick