Your template is a little off. Heinlein had it nailed in the book (NOT THAT DRECK OF A film) “Starship Troopers”. No draft, no obligation to serve of any kind . . .pay your taxes, don’t break the law and do as you will with your own life. But vote? The only path to the vote is national service of some kind (and no vote while you are serving). Service (and obligation to something bigger than yourself) is strictly voluntary.
Oh, women in combat arms? The training is intended to prepare soldiers for Combat situations where they are on the “sharp end” of things. So, standards for training are based on what the average soldier is capable of when pushed (not what the exceptional physical specimen is capable of). There are women quite capable of the physical requirements, but they are the exception. You don’t base standards for all on what the exceptional are capable of. Standards set are the same for all, if the Army (and Marines) were to set standards based on what the average troop was capable of (in the case of women in combat arms) it would have to be based on the average female. Result, lowered standards, lowered physical requirements AND capability. The Israelis tried to integrate their forces this way, (in a society of survivors with limited numbers of people), they stopped for many reasons, the above being just one.
