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Confidently incorrect is the best kind of incorrect.
Tell me you a) haven't paid attention to any modern conflict taking place on earth right now, and b) you've never actually done any of it yourself, without telling me.
There's plenty of jobs in the military that aren't fighting on the front lines. US power at war is derived from its logistics. Need people to drive trucks, get water, build shit. USMC has over 300 jobs, but 03 jobs are essentially the ones considered front lines. They always throw the 10% number around, 10% do the fighting while 90% support.
And 90% of logistics is moving heavy things long distances.
I've never met a single service person, in both my 10 years in and since, who didn't have to carry heavy shit. The whole military mindset is "Don't use a machine to do what human bodies can do with a little effort."
I served with dudes whose motto was if you can't truck it, fuck it, but I get what you're saying. I also think we're not talking crazy heavy shit. A case of MREs is like 20lbs, and I'm sure you, like me, did many an assembly line of MREs. I actually found loading trucks via assembly line to be efficient. And did I sometimes carry 100+lbs of shit? Absolutely, but I also did that 03 job.
They'll find a place for the older, heftier folks to serve. And they'll also get those people in better shape.