Female Navy Captain being relieved of duty

Source: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1969602-1,00.html
First question is how this woman got promoted in the first place as she has a track record of acting like this. Another is why the Navy take did so long to fire her. Did any of the sailors complain to the IG? What about Congressional complaints? Why did no one see that she was not developing any sub-ordinate officers? According to the article she would tell any officer seeking help that they should already know what to do and not to bother her.
There are many bad leaders in this military, but this captain takes the cake.
Was all this due to political correctness of placing women in combat (the belief that there is no difference between the sexes.)? Are we as a nation so blind in equality that we overlook the actual differences?
When I was working at the Totem Lake RadioShack in Kirkland, WA, a woman bought some things and our conversation wondered into sex equality. She said that she was a feminist at one time and firmly believed that there was no difference between the sexes and that the differences were caused by society. Then she got married and had five boys. She said, “Boys are different! They are far more aggressive then girls” and more adventurous, more wild.
We need to stop this pushing women into combat positions and remove them from even certain theater of operations. Use women in positions so that men can be freed to serve in combat areas. It worked in WWII and earlier wars, no real reason for the change.