[quote=Albief15;438162]Hawg,

The guys who were the biggest defenders and champions of the gals where the guys who had gone through the training pipeline with them. It certainly wasn't "abnomal" to them, it was "ops normal".

Some of the first female Naval fleet tactical aviators went through training in my class back in '93. The problem with it then is that there was special treatment given and it only served to anger those who already had a problem with the integration. The infamous 'Pilot B' (from the Kara Hultgreen fiasco) was a few classes behind me. She had done well in training but struggled in the TomCat. Now days - I see no difference in the quality of training or the expectations required of the female pilots.
One of the ebst 'officers' that we have had come through lately was a young 1stLt Marine. She was definitely the one that you wanted on duty when something went wrong (I'm not speaking of in the air here - but more akin to that 0300 call that there is a problem out in town for instance)

USMCFLYR