An interesting 1993 GAO study on the matter:
WOMEN IN THE MILITARY: Deployment in the Persian Gulf War
http://archive.gao.gov/t2pbat5/149552.pdf
Chapter 5 (Unavailability for Deployment) - perception vs reality - is interesting.
And so it goes...
Richard 
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