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Women can't fly combat missions or aircraft so this is obviously some fake news...sheesh you'd think they would try to lie properly at least :)

Are you sure about that? If they can't fly combat missions, why would they train in front line, first rate airplanes?

Remember the lady pilot (and, I believe her RIO) who died in the F-14 Tomcat some years ago? I don't think that the Navy would be putting a woman in an F-14 if she wasn't going to be able to fly combat missions. Of course, I could be wrong.

Mark

Lt. Kara Hultgreen.....killed due to pilot error on her first carrier landing (it may have been her first night carrier landing). Her gunner ejected safely. She would have washed out long before if she had not been given waivers repeatedly to appease the feminists. The officers who complained about this after her tragic death were forced to resign not for lying but for breaking the Navy's confidentiality.

Women were first being accepted into fighter jet training around 1985 when I was a senior in high school and seriously considering going for it. I was the only chick I knew who had posters of F-16s on her wall and a copy of "Jane's Aircraft Recognition" on my nightstand.

For many years, women served in roles such as test-flying and ferrying of fighters between locations, and giving flight instruction. There are many roles in operations where sending a pilot through or to an area without combat training was silly and a liability, so they receive the same training. Many turned out to be just as good and have now been flying in combat roles for our last few scuffles around the world, including Kosovo, Afghanistan and Gulf War 1.

I won't deny that there are issues with validity about women in combat. I would not push for very many of the women I know to be infantry. They aren't strong enough. I do however think that they make fine pilots.

I won't usually talk about those issues with people that sound so angry about it that they want to insult those women who wish to pursue it. I almost became one, though I didn't and stayed civillian. But I know some that did, and they were sharp plucky girl-pilots I would be proud of, as proud as I am the sharp plucky guy-pilots I know. Pilots are my favorite people, the cocky brats.