I have served with really outstanding female service personnel and like you, I have observed some females who were more professional than a whole pack of males. The difference is direct combat. It is a whole different environment than any other human experience and it requires an almost superhuman set of capabilities. There is a tendency among combat support and combat service support specialties to look down on the "lowly grunt" but the infantryman has to have the capabilities, the wits, the team and the talent to win and survive while doing it. Infantry is no place for the weak, the stupid, or the distracted. A buddy of mine once said that we have three types of combat troop; the Killer, the Filler and the Fodder. Killers amount to no more than 20% - they are the ones that can retain their focus in the nightmare of a firefight and actually aim their weapons and kill their enemies. Fillers make noise, a lot of noise, and if you're lucky, they don't hit you or bystanders. They make up the main proportion of people on the line. Fodder are going to die no matter what you do for them. They are the ones that didn't pay attention to their training, walk on the skyline, don't dig in when you stop, smoke at night, open gates, walk in the middle of the trail, etc.
Adding ladies adds yet more complication. Now we will have the young men focusing on something other than what they have to be focused on and we will have less success and more dead and wounded.
I admire the patriotisim, honor, and fidelity of the young ladies who would volunteer for this duty but combat is not the right place for them.
I agree 100% with what you are saying. Females don’t need to be in the main fight - be it support or direct - I can tell you we would have gotten alot more done without the female presence - and this notion that they should be able to join in combat is ignorant and is nothing more than a distraction...Yes, the females I served with that were MP’s did an outstanding job - but there is no place for them on the battlefield - in that, they are - the ones I have served with have sacrificed as we all did - some others been killed - some wounded - but I agree, they should be there.