Probably at lower rates than they would have had they not joined the Navy. Girls will be girls, but they do need the boys to "help" with that little chore. Of course as big a "Horn Dog" reputation that sailors have always had, it's not hard finding a "cooperative" one.
All kidding aside, we need them. Just this month all the services made their recruiting goals. It only took a monster recession to do it. The cold hard facts are that we don't get enough male recruits, even when we drop the standards, to fully man the already undersized military. We need the women.
Of course my cute blond friend who wears two stars on her shoulders would kick their ashes, and those of their male accomplices, if she was Navy. But her blue suit is a somewhat different shade than Navy Blue.
Eh, we’ve needed them ever since the draft was ended. Another mistake by Dick Nixon, along with affirmative action, wage & price controls, the EPA, etc. Aside from Watergate, most conservatives don’t realize what a lousy president he was.