[Evans, Marv]

It's that way everywhere - armed services, police, fire, border patrol, etc., etc. As a young guy I worked as a back country ranger during summers in the Sierras. I had to help with rescues and do rescue work by myself as part of the job. I once had to carry a guy piggy back who weighed 20 lbs. more than I did two miles cross country (rocky, up & down hill) to get him to a place where he could be evacuated by helicopter or stock. He had broken an ankle in a place too narrow for helicopter and pretty much too rough to get stock into. I wasn't a huge guy, but strong for my size and in really good shape. The guy was amazed. I just told him it was his tax dollars at work. That wasn't the only time I had to do something like that, & the other guys had to do it too. Now they have put some women up there to do the job. In that situation a woman would have had to call in a chopper with two more guys on it to be dropped in the area to help the guy out to where he could be evacuated. More expense and man hours because the person there wasn't up to handling the job alone. Not saying a male would be able to solve all problems by himself, but the odds were much greater.