I'm not opposed to women in the military, but the affirmative action nonsense where performance is a life or death issue will get people killed. I actually think there are some roles where women would actually tend to outperform men, such as sonar operators. But the lunacy now of relaxing standards to advance women and minorities is simply going to get servicemembers killed and negatively affect the military. Plus the excuses for bad behavior, like the ship captain (female) and XO (female) who weren't talking to each other and relayed messages through subordinates. That's the ridiculous behavior that was tolerated on one of the naval vessels involved in a fatal collision a few years ago.
Affirmative action means choosing persons based upon skin color and ethnicity, which is racist and wrong since these aspects do not determine character (though their culture may) or ability, while gender can. And in which the female species is uniquely designed to conceive and birth children as her normative role, and to raise them with her husband and male leader, with the male being suited for his role and certain functions which require greater physical strength, unemotional decision making, and protection of precious females (the "weaker" sex as gold as weaker than iron), with militates against battlefield cohesiveness with men.
Overall ignoring the God-designed and ordained differences (thank God!) btwn genders and normative roles and perverting them is part of the work of the devil which works to pervert all that God ordained in order to glory in a world society which is distinctly his creation, for he seeks to be as God,. to his own destruction. But which God allows in order to provide man an alternative to obeying the uniquely omniscient omnipotent Giver and Sustainer of Life, without which alternative man's ability to choose is meaningless.