No, its not the Imp. November 2018 HNoMS Helge Ingstad, a Norwegian frigate, collided with the tanker Sola TS and sank. Much criticism and many jokes were made on the Norwegian navy following this.
But as it turns, and this has only come to light in the last few days and appears to have been actively suppressed for 4 years now, the duty officer on the bridge was a female US navy officer under training, on a exchange program between the Norwegian and US Navy.
Its one thing that it happened, but this has been rumored for years and the only reason its finally come out is because she has been requested to testify as a witness during court proceedings currently ongoing against the watch chief of Helge Ingstad.
Pussy pass stamped and approved, and a male Norwegian officer is currently getting shafted for a fuckup in part caused by a US navy diversity hire.
I'd love to see that study. Do you still have it to hand?
I'd like to read it as well (and see what 'under load' constituted for men and women in the study).
In my experience, they got hurt at half-pack, while most of us were fine at 120-140%, because we were carrying what they couldn't in addition to our own.
Of course, when units in my field went forward WMs never left the wire except in MRAPs, but they still had to pretend in training, and they never had anything other than individual equipment to carry. No squad gear, just sleeping kit, ammo, weapon, and armor to ruck around with.
That had to have been a huge drain on morale knowing you had women larping in the service
It was less a drain than the inevitable infidelity while husbands and boyfriends were downrange, or the resulting suicide in the battalion adjacent.
There was one woman who decided she just wanted to be a mother after her first son was born, so she angled for a job in the bullshit 'family readiness' office and rode out her contract there. No LARPing, no failure to pull her weight, didn't get fat, basically just a civilian in MARPAT, working an 8-5 behind a desk instead of bent over it.
She was the only one I wouldn't say was a net negative. An island of hope in a sea of useless whores and half-useless hags.
You know, aside from the fact that she took up a very expensive, very scarce A-school seat.
Unfortunately not. Sorry.
I did a bit of a search, and this is the study I found. There are others, including officer training.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9158436/
Most of the data of recruit injury isn't broken down by gender or injury type by gender. I don't think that is a cooincidence.
The broad consensus is that women are much more likely to suffer injuries to the legs and lower legs than men; and that this can be reduced with the correct physical conditioning.
Reduced how much, and compared to what remains unanswered.