A Flight Surgeon is an MD with advanced training in Aerospace medicine, preventive medicine, and public health. In addition, we went through airborne training, land survival, water survival, arctic survival, jungle survival, and in some cases desert survival. We were trained in emergency medical procedures under all circumstances.
There were females under fire in WW II, and every war or hostile action since. The young female captain saved me in Honduras in 1985. Females weren't just behind the lines they were there with me.