I'm not necessarily fully against women in the miltary either. Combat? Well depends on the situation. A woman pilot doesn't bug me as much as deployed in the trenches as the way I see it they are less likely to cause issues with fraternization or whatever there.

The big issue here is the pussy pass. She was promoted to a position she had not earned. It's not just a reward for being the best that gets these pilots in the fighters, it's because it takes that high level of ability to do the job. I hadn't actually heard about this crash surprisingly enough, but I did some research and she didn't follow the checklist and made the problem worse. Sure, it's hard to criticize in an emergency, but if you go do any pilot training emergency procedures are drilled in very early. This even applies to puttering around in little single engine prop planes. The whole point is to get you thinking with your head when something goes wrong. Something like an emergency on landing is a time when the plane is very sensitive and freaking and making aggressive inputs is a quick way to spin yourself into the ground. Perhaps the pilot that had earned that spot would have not gotten into this situation to begin with, maybe they would have remembered and followed the checklist (they would have had to memorize this stuff in training), or maybe they also would have crashed and died. There's no way to know. But when you promote someone that didn't earn it, you open up for questions.