Toad,
You miss the point entirely.....it is not about Diversity....it is all about the dividing us up into the various contingents and offering differing treatment of each minority group.
We need to be teaching "Inclusiveness" not "Diversity"....and focus upon what bonds us together into an effective fighting force.
When Women (the kind that can bear children) you mention were infused into Combat Units.....in order to hold a counseling session of one of them.....it became necessary to have a Witness of the session to ensure there was no complaint of misconduct by the Counselor.
During Desert Storm....the US Military lost 1,500 Personnel due to pregnancies.....the equivalent of a full Battalion....BEFORE the first Round was fired in anger.
How does that improve unit cohesiveness?
In the US Military today....we are seeing the advocacy of Critical Race Theory (CRT) that teaches all Whites are Racist.....how is that helpful?
I was around when merely being a Homosexual was a mortal Sin that got you removed from the Military......and any homosexual conduct got you Court Martialed and removed from the Service..
No doubt t here were many such folks that served honorably without being known for their being Homosexuals.....which is exactly how it should be.....do the job and be judged upon your performance and service.
By creating all this noise about it.....only generates problems.
It is not the identity or membership in the various communities that matters.....and that is where we have to get back to....and forget all the other.
I repeat myself here.....Anything that detracts from the Combat Capability....the Combat Effectiveness.....the Unit Cohesion......must not be allowed to exist in the Military.
Social change in the United States has been led by the US Military beginning with ending Segregation in the late 1940's.
The policy was changed....the Military complied.....well ahead of the society from which its members were drawn.
The Military sets higher standards for itself than does society in general.
That is why the Military IS different than the Society it protects and why those Standards are different than the society it draws from.