‘Has … political correctness so infected our institutions that the U.S. military is now affected, too?’

I think an answer to that may be: We were warned. We were warned by Elaine Donnelly (and others, including Kate O’Beirne, who served on the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services in the early Nineties), on the feminism issues. It is diversity over security in some of the decision-making in the military. It’s become an ingrained cultural reality when it comes to women there (women to be deployed on subs soon, BTW). I think it might be fair to say these issues are not unrelated.