It is sheer ignorance to pretend as if women are men. They are women. Iraqi soldiers would just love to get their hands on these lovelies.
How about we send your daughter into combat.
We went through all this with the female helicopter pilot captured in Gulf War I.
After her release, she said "yes, she had been raped, so what? Didn't the press think the men were raped too? After all these were Arabs."
It is just that the press is too delicate about our male heroes sensibilities to ask them if they got the Laurence of Arabia treatment.
So9
But, I don't have a problem with females in certain limited support roles, and as pilots. If they get shot down and captured, well, it sucks to be a POW for men or women. But there's no reason a woman can't fly as well as a man.
The only limitation I'd have is that I'm a bit leery of women flying close support. One advantage the Corps has is that all our officers, including pilots, get a strong dose of infantry training that I think helps when its time to support the ground guys. But that certainly doesn't apply to the army or navy.