Additional networks have been added to the Allen chart.
I joined the USMC in 1972. In less than one hour of taking the oath of enlistment, I was physically harassed by a male recruit in Richmond as we waited to head out to the airport. This was either at AFEES or the recruiting office; I don't remember which. In the larger scheme of things at that time, this was annoying, but not dangerous, and unfortunately not at all unusual.
Webb's 1979 comments on women in the military are far from egalitarian, but in my opinion they reflect what was middle-of-the-road military thinking at the time. They are arguably left of center for USMC thinking at the time.
Discrimination against women - and other minorities - was the rule of the day across society back in that era. Women drivers were still the butt of wisecracks. We were still emerging from a period in which women had been restricted to only a handful of career options outside of the home. It is laudable that Jim Webb opened up numerous billets for women as Secretary of the Navy.
To target one person in such an anachronist manner for political expediency is misleading and historically insulting.