How about looking at the motivation to disseminate the relationship between Female Marines, their apparent difficulty with Pull ups and blocking Female Marines from front line combat situations.
The above scenario was the first thing that came to my mind... Why is the information out here? What purpose does it serve? Is it newsworthy? And, who provided the analysis of Female pull up capability to whom?
As might be expected, down at the VA hospital where I find myself a few times a week, anything military finds it way into discussion. This topic produced a general consensus that women simply don't have the same strength factors that men do and that it MAY have an impact on mission capability.
Do folks with their butt on the line want taking that chance? I'd not IF it were true which brings me back to my initial thought... Why is the information in the news....
Following a trail based on assumptive logic, I come up with the idea that some fellas in the Corp are not happy with having females threatening to invite themselves into the long held and revered bastion of machismo soaked masculinity: The battlefront. This along with the credible argument that if women can't pull the same load and endure as long as the average male Gyrene then they obviously don't belong in the same fighting hole with them.
So to make their point of view more effective and convincing - *poof* out comes the evidence supporting their claims.
As an aside, allow me to comment further in this post rather than creating a new one. IMO, there's no getting around the idea emanating from certain quarters in the military that situating females in the front lines right in the thick of armed conflict is more a matter of satisfying some kind of political equal opportunity agenda rather than being a policy meant to actually strengthen and improve the capability of a fighting unit.
Until I see or hear a convincing argument about how deploying women into front line fighting units will improve the capabilities of said fighting units rather than possibly lessening their cohesiveness and effectiveness, I'm going to stick with the opinion that there's no actual strategically derived real need to have them there.
I'm not arguing the point that females shouldn't be deployed to front line units whatsoever. All I need to convince me that they should be out there fighting hand to hand combat against a ferocious and determined enemy is one single credible argument.