Further to my post #22, I do not think that, without a compromise to present standards, the majority of woman will be able to undertake this role.
This one size fits all outlook has already caused problems with basic training. You can't get more basic than marching and in the days when males and females were in separate services, the ppm was the same but men marched at a 30 in. pace length whereas for women it was a pace length of 27 ins. Put both sexes in a common service and what happened ? MOD had to pay claims from women who had suffered pelvic injury when subjected to an extra 3 ins.
I could have worded that better but true none the less.