I don't think the findings of this study should surprise anyone. Women are smaller, have less muscle mass, smaller joints, etc. That will make them more prone to injury. My Q is, is not Basic and the physical training that follows not different for men and women in the Corp? If you expect less in training, why would you expect anything to be different in combat? Obviously women fill various roles in the mil very well, but front line combat may not be one of them:
Marine experiment finds women get injured more frequently, shoot less accurately than men
"Women in a new Marine Corps unit created to assess how female service members perform in combat were injured twice as often as men, less accurate with infantry weapons and not as good at removing wounded troops from the battlefield, according to the results of a long-awaited study produced by the service.
The research was carried out by the service in a nine-month long experiment at both Camp Lejeune, N.C., and Twentynine Palms, Calif. About 400 Marines, including 100 women, volunteered to join the Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force, the unit the Marine Corps created to compare how men and women do in a combat environment.
“This is unprecedented research across the services,” said Marine Col. Anne Weinberg, the deputy director of the Marine Corps Force Innovation Office. “What we tried to get to is what is that individual’s contribution to the collective unit. We all fight as units… We’re more interested in how the Marine Corps fights as units and how that combat effectiveness is either advanced or degraded.”
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