And how many combat missions do you have. No airfield, let alone some remote landing strip, is completely safe to fly into. The bad guys have RPGs, mortars, and even a few MANPAD SAMS.
But even that is not the point. Anytime you fly into, out of, or within, a combat zone, it's a combat mission.
This may have been the first all female C-130 crew, but I ran into an all female crew 20 years ago, in the Transit Billeting office at the old Carswell AFB. Trouble is I can't remember what kind of aircraft they were flying. C-141 or maybe KC-135, I just can't recall. It's called getting old.
And that's exactly the point. As Republicans, we aren't about recognizing which "group" or "gender" did what. We're all Americans. I respect the women serving as well as the men. It's what seperates us from the islamofascists.