I spent four years as a Marine. I spent 13 months of that as a grunt in active combat every month of that tour. I ran patrols over mountains, sometimes with full gear, through jungles and across plains of elephant grass in 110 degree weather and monsoon, set up ambushes all night, participated in firefights with North Vietnamese and Red Chinese regulars. Every one of those activities required equal and consistent brutal strength of mind and body every sequential second.
There were no women there to command except support personel in rear areas, and few of those, due to the dangerous nature of just being in that country at that time.
I don't have to have commanded women to know that they could not have endured this type of exercise, regardless of their desires, hopes or agendas. They would have been a danger to themselves and others.
As far as I can see, we have a cup overflowing with strong healthy men. The is no point but social engineering to go near the population of women. I don't think social engineering that runs contrary to millennia of human understanding of natural law, when natural law was right out the back door, is worth the life of one innocent man or deluded woman.
Obviously this general went up the chain in the support and logistics ranks, the area where women have served often and well. I sorry if I tarnish your viewpoint of this lady, but for her to speak, with the authority of her rank, of such physical, mental, emotional hardships is absurd. 