I'll just echo Copeab. Whatever the relative merits of women v. men in today's military, they'll be found in T2K units. After four years of war in Poland, to use the canonical example, I have to expect that any man between 16 and 40 would be considered fair game for recruiting as long as the unit has a rifle to arm him. While many women might not be up to scratch compared to current US army target inductee, there are many that I would rather have in my unit than middle aged and out of shape former pencil pushers from Warsaw. I would certainly take an intelligent and dedicated woman with prewar basic and specialty training over an eastern block civilian who was drummed out of the first three conscription drives of the war and only made it in on the fourth round. The 'will they be there' question misses the point for me. I'm sure they will be. For me the more interesting question is in what proportion. I'm guessing that they will be only 10-20% of a unit, but not nearly scarce.
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