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The Army Times has a piece on women attending One Station Unit Training initial entry training to  become Infantry soldiers in the United States Army.  

Of course, the leadership at Ft. Benning is all about how they're adjusting, making it work, etc. And of course, no one wants to say women in the Infantry is a bad thing. 

But to give Army Times credit, they do list some of the reasons why allowing women in the Infantry is stupid. 

Commanders are adjusting to new concentrations of injuries among the women. While male recruits often get ankle sprains and dislocated shoulders, women are prone to stress fractures in their hips. In the latest class, six of the seven injured women in Charlie Company had hip stress fractures.

Emphasis mine. Stress fractures of the hips are not minor injuries. That's enough to sideline someone for at least a month, and usually two. Further, it's an injury that will almost certainly reoccur under similar circumstances. And take my word for it, the lightest rucksack march you'll ever do is in basic training. In a real unit, the loads only go up. 

We're grooming these women to suffer injuries at rates far beyond those of men, and with longer lasting consequences than a sprained ankle. We're going to see these women with service connected disability claims draining the public fisc such that no matter how hard they tried to serve honorable, they instead represent a net drain on the force. 

And when they are discharged due to injury or failure to complete training, at a rate twice of that for men, the Army has to recruit someone to replace them. And that delay means a deployable unit will go to war shorthanded. 

It is stupid. And everyone knows it. But none dare speak the truth.