A history of Gender

After reading the various articles, the one that stuck out the most to me was A History of Gender by Joanne Meyerowitz.  While mostly a 20 year review of a Joan Scott work, the part that I am writing about has to deal with gender and the military and "policies of manhood". Between my twelve years in the military ( a few spent as EEO) and as a Women and Gender Studies minor at Pace University, the notion of masculinity and soldiering, one would assume unfortunately, go hand-in-hand.

With time both in the Army and Air Force I discovered the hyper-masculinity that exists even between to branches of the US armed forces. The Army would be even as savage and brutal while the Air Force more effeminate and lazy - but there ideas go out the window once the bullets started flyer in war zones. 

Now the next great struggle or externally perceived are LGBTQ service members - this has brought many ideas of gender, feminism, and masculinity into question for some people.  While there are service members who would see the military and unchangeable and  pure, the US armed forces, with all of its masculinity has been at the forefront of social change.  We now have women serving (though they have been to a certain degree for generations) opening in combat roles along side men. The ideas that women or LGBTQ members cannot handle the rigors of warfare have been completely washed aside.

While Meyerowitz's work was done in 2008, right as the question of LGBTQ service members was about to be openly discussed seriously for a change - I would be interested in hearing what she would have to say in a post-gender/post-LGBTQ US Armed Forces.