My problem is we’re blown off without even having a shot at it. Let us try. If we don’t make it, we don’t make it but don’t go pushing us off because we’re women. I’m a pilot. I fly jets. I had a bf who was a pilot (is a a pilot). I waxed his butt so many times when we flew air combat sim’s in real planes it wasn’t funny. We’re pulling almost 9g’s and he couldn’t take it. So, some people can make it and some can’t. We shouldn’t be discounted because of our sex. Just saying.
As for combat pilots - I don’t know. I just don’t have the personal knowledge to make form an informed judgment on the matter.
If all goes well in a sortie, the pilots return to a (relatively) safe place, where they recuperate and plan the next mission.
There are some psychological issues that arise if a woman is captured - and I’m speaking of the nation, and fellow soldiers/airmen/marines/seamen/etc. Remember the female transportation spec4 during the Iraq war?
But a combat pilot role is different than an infantry or armor role, where physical strength and stamina are specific reasons for survival or not. And not just the individual, but the whole unit is imperiled.
Thank you for discussing this with me reasonably, and I hope I have risen to that same standard.
City governments waste a fortune in expensive, dedicated efforts to get some unqualified female into their fire departments, the military doesn’t have the time or the need to waste time and energy searching for a possible exception who can squeak through, it doesn’t help us at all, it only hurts us.
There is no reason to search high and low for a way to get a single female mixed into the supply needs and social cohesion of a unit.
If you read the posts in this thread, you will see that you are not accurate with this statement. The objections are because it is expected that the standards will be lowered when women are allowed to join.