Why do we even have to go to the Navy to know this is a bad idea? The USAF has had women in aircraft maintenance for decades, and it’s been a failure. Some can do the job but most can’t even do the heavy lifting. At best one out of 8 is the success rate. Heard that the USAF tried a few times to run the numbers but they were so bad they had to stop the process before it was finished due to political correctness. It didn’t fit and nobody wanted to ruin their career even if the numbers were on their side. Something often not brought up is that training costs money plus resources and failures waste it. If putting women in aircraft maintenance was an experiment, it would have failed.
The heavy lifting part alone should disqualify women from almost every single job the military has to offer enlistees, except for JAG, Chaplain and so on. Women officers, I think are more successful (career minded) and more mature when they first go on active duty, but what happens when they get captured? They would get raped dozens of times a day.