I know several ex-sailors who said life got very complicated when they put women on ships. We don’t know how it’s affected combat readiness because we haven’t been tested. Some famous general said “Everything is theoretical until the shooting starts.” Okay, maybe I said it, but the point is training and maneuvers aren’t the real thing. Social experimentation with our military right now would be suicidal.
Everything is theoretical until the ship gets hit, some woman in a flooding compartment doesn't have the upper body strength to pull herself up out of it, and a sailer has to make a split-second decision on whether to save the ship by shutting the hatch on a girl he's romantically attached to.