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If you're the captain, it really doesn't matter who was involved.

All you know is that the REFTRA that you trained for goes out the window. Any kind of personal qualifications that female earned in her training there - qualifications you were counting on at sea and in the duty rotation - they're gone.

Maybe you don't get a replacement. Maybe the replacement is less qualified. Maybe the replacement is male, and you don't have a bunk for them, except in female berthing, which won't do.

As captain, you don't care, except that during the cruise it's as if 17 people were injured and had to be medevac'd off.

Make it an all female ship. Now the captain only has one type of berthing, and one set of heads, and more room for fuel, torpedoes, gym equipment, pizza makings, replacement parts, or anything else that comes in handy on a nine month deployment.

Females are always going to be the issue in a male dominated armed force with mixed gender operational units. Solution: all female units. If one fine day there are more female units than male ones, then you reach social equality in national defense. No job would be off limits to a female - none. Just don't mix the two. You don't get twice the headaches, you get something on the order of 5 or 6 times the headaches. Any honest female CO will tell you the same thing I just did. Put boys and girls in a floating prison with little to do for nine months, and thoughts will turn to the obvious.