Our Military is a professional Military and as such it has men and women doing very honorable and very difficult work in the defense of this nation. Today, there are women that are flying everything from Apache Longbows, to F/A-18's, to KC-135's, as well as honorable commanding units throughout the Military. While some may think that by making the Military a reflection in of society in terms of social norming is a good thing it does not work in the Military infrastructure and breaksdown the chain of command that the Military structure works on. In fact I would submit that the Military is perhaps one of the best examples of how well people can work together, and is in many aspects as gender friendly as you can get. In my time, I never had the privledge to command a female aviator nor actually fly with one, and can tell you from my perspective it would not have mattered as long as she was able to do the job. This attitude you will find is very common in the Military and is less so in the civilian world. However, to make the Military "sensitive" to the individual would deal a death blow to unit structure and as little place in Military training. That said. it is not advocating sadistic training methods, but iis advocating methods by which the Military can bring out the best in an individual as well as impart in them a sense of pride for thier unit and sense of self sacrifice, it also looks to seperate those that do not have this ability and will cost lives in combat, because regardless of how much many would like to paint a nice face on it, the business of the Military is War. I mentioed as well War has not no rules, now while many may think , yes it does, we have ROE's and the Geneva convention, but try telling that to the A-6 driver who just had an SA-2 shot at him , or the Marine who is pinned down by AK-47 fire.
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