Lots of good stories on this topic, I have 2 typical stories. I'm in the USAFR currently and have to shoot M9 and M16 on occasion, since I used to have imput into who had to go shoot I was frequently the backup if someone scheduled could not fire. 1 time after sitting in the classroom portion of recurrent training, which is where you decide who is your compitition and who you need to watch so that you don't have a loaded weapon facing you on the range. I had decided that most people would not have a clue in my class of 15 except the ex Infantry, the ex Pararescue, and actually a woman who was ex AD army papershuffler. We all did fine except the overly gun-ho ex-grunt who couldn't but but half his rounds within the centermass circle on the target. All talk,I should have known, I guess they teach more suppressive fire technique than actual markmansship. I have one last comment about military range days, When shooting M9's you can always see how you did after a shooting sequence compared to your peers, the last time a cop, the ex-PJ, myself and a bunch of nurses and medics were shootingandyou start checkingout targets down the line, then counting heads to see if your assumptions about who the shooters in your group are. To my surprise, after counting down about ten targetsI found a target witha fist sized hole blown out centermass with a 40 y/o female nurse giving me the look like "you want a piece of that" So my premonitions are not perfect. Anyway, Male Female it doesn't matter much at the range, on Active Duty I would still rather have someone stronge enough to carry his rifle bullets and beans and carryhisown weight so you don't have to.