These wackadoodle’s have worked as a mortar team before … I was a gunner in Vietnam 1967-68 1st Cavalry… Dropped hundreds of 81mm rounds on the NVA and Vietcong… Yeah women can preform this firing easily … However I wouldn’t want any women on my squad … When it comes to humping this 81mm it’s not for the weak kneaded … I carried 60-80#’s on my back each and everyday out in the field … Then if your the RTO you pack another 25+ pounds … + another 5# spare battery. And I usually packed the 81mm mortar sight so the others in our squad packed the tripod 37#’s The barrel weighted 28#’s +-, the baseplate was in two sections 28#’s … Each 81mm round weighed 9# each… I weighed 155#’s soaking wet … when I came home my caliphs were the size of grapefruit… A Vietnam jungle is no place for a women … once I went 4 months without a shower… Not to say I didn’t jump in a river or stream … butt naked … with other while someone pulled watch duty. Did I mention … you wear no underwear in jungle conditions … you’ll get a case of jungle rot in your crotch… of coarse I suppose you could make exceptions for the women … fly them back to the rear let them bathe and get a good meal … am I being too facetious… damn the average age was what 19 … You’ve got two things on your mind food and the opposite sex … well not getting killed comes in third.
