Should gender be a consideration for guard duty?

Yes women make better guards. They do not cold, wet, heat, rain, snow, etc. all they need is something to protect hair and nails.

I was usually the lone female in my aviation unit. This came up often but it was something I was asked about and I was fine with it.

And the problems started; the first thing the chain of command going to is put female on guard duty together, to prevent any franterinzition, til they realize that it won't work out. You are going to have to put male/female together on guard duty and In patrols and in fighting postion, It going to take time to get over the negative aspects of have women but they are good troopers

Can each do the job as assigned? Then it's a mute point period!

I think first and foremost that regardless of gender they are all soldiers. The oath did not say something different based on gender we all took the same oath when we enlisted. So regardless of the unit that we are in unless its a unit that does not go the field then we all have pull guard duty and I cannot remember that we were ever assigned two females to be on shift by themselves we always have a male counterpart as part of the team. Always remember that we all have to work together as a team regardless of your gender. So the answer to your question is no it is not wrong for you to put two soldiers on ammo guard regardless of gender.

Nope. guard is part of military life. Mission accomplishment.

No it is not wrong women want equeal right then they should do equeal work

Gender should not be an issue. I've worked beside nothing but men in the military and now as a police officer. As long as the person is well trained there should not be a problem!

What are you talking about Soldiers needs to work as one, there is no gender to be considered while on guard Duty for that matter if confronted on an infantry line being attacked and flanked by two sides I really don't think gender is going to be a factor in defending that position everybody is up in arms and protecting each other while on guard Duty it is the same principle you need to find some better excuses not to have women on guard Duty thank you my name is corporal mendieta United States Marine Corps

No. I ran into an issue when I was stationed in Italy. Our supply sergeant, a female, came to me and told me that the first sergeant wanted me to give her two Soldiers for a detail in the warehouse. I asked for volunteers and I got two one of which was a female Specialist who probably weigh no more than a 100 pounds. Later, The Supply Sergeant came to me and complained because I did not send her two male soldiers. I reminded her that she only asked me for two soldiers and I complied. If we're going to insist that females be treated exactly the same in the military then males and females need to start operating together. We can't keep having discussions about gender roles come up. Females are going to adapt. Females in the Infantry will have to perform exactly the same as the males in Infantry and males are going to have to accept that for now at least. This includes tasks as mundane as guard duty. So I guess whoever the sergeant of the Guard is it just going to have to keep checking up on the males and females that are on ammo guard.