I don’t think they are trying to offend anyone. Most likely this is part of the push to put women in direct combat units in the not to distant future. They always seem to come up with stupid rules prior to a stupid policy.
I agree they are probably not TRYING to offend...but the race patrol team finds it anyway and so, once again, due to having to adhere to the PC Bible, the military is distracted from what they should really be doing...
Letting our troops go after the bad guys......