"I agree, as long as we're not talking about removing women from combat aviation. There's a difference between being in the air and on the ground. "
Woman are, if anything, even more out of place in a cockpit than in a foxhole.
I don't care if it's karate, knife fighting, boxing, infantry combat, CIC on a ship of the line, or an aircraft, fighting is fighting, and women are just not wired for it.
There may be some women that can sometimes do better than mediocre men, but the best men will always be better than the best women. Always.
Fighter jocks are the best of the best of the best. IOW, no woman could possibly qualify on a level playing field, or be anything other than a danger to the men around her if affirmative actioned above her ability.
Besides, what is the point of fighting a war if the women are dead at the end of it? Men might as well slit their own throats and spare themselves the trouble.
I suspect it will be awhile before we see the Blue Angels follow suit.
Recently a woman pilot was widely recognized as the top aerobatic pilot in the world. But aerobactics is no more aerial combat than close order drill on a parade field is ground combat.