We know that female soldiers and aviators in Iraq were indeed placed in "hot" environments and certainly took fire. The ones I met who regularly travelled the roads were noticeably worse for the experience. There are/were USMC females and female Navy Corpsmen in country, but I am not sure whether, or how often, they got out into it. There are female Corpsmen in Afghanistan now who almost certainly are in it, even if they do not go outside the wire.
I think the only thing that keeps females out of the various special forces branches is the extreme physical training, and the physical requirements set out in the job description. You are right, that may somehow change in the near term.
I think it will initially change under the lie that standards will not be lowered.
Then standards will actually remain in place but will be disregarded and ignored.
Or standards will remain and actually be enforced, resulting in just a few women making the cut. Then the standards would come under attack as unreasonable, not relevant, and existing only to keep women out. Then the standards will officially be jettisoned.