The health care costs of female soldiers and their ineffectiveness in combat, to this day, has been squashed and ingored as a scandal of huge proportion.
Now we are going to have an openly rapist military with a host of problems.
In my later Naval service (75-86), it was already a problem with unwarranted harassment complaints, unexpected or intential pregnancies to get out of deployment, and the females needing the upper-body strength of their male counter-parts to complete certain tasks. With years of the proper propaganda training, it has become to be understood as the norm. But the problems remain to this day. The CNO, DOD, and joint chiefs just ignore it for their own political careers.
Can't wait for the first problems to occur on our subs. Just what we need with bambi and gates further downsizing our military, is women on Tridents. Do any of you know how large those boats are and how many places there are to "get it on"? I'm a simple aviation sailor, but even I know the stress our "bubbleheads" go through on their undersea patrols. Now think about a much smaller attack sub, with men and women in even closer proximity. A closed door while off-duty is all it will take. Then what? Have to service for the pregnant sailor? What about "hot-racking"? What about having a Doctor who knows gyn/ob?
Interestingly, I've read where Israel gave up on women in combat positions because of the above problems.
Worse,this gay issue will be the undoing of our military, for so many reasons stated so many times. It is unsolvable due to limited space on ships. Different heads (bathrooms) for men, women, gays, lesbians, bi-sexuals on a submarine or small destroyer? Really? How will that work? Someone explain it to this old shellback.