re: Active Marines - Have Women in the Infantry Had a Negative Impact on the USMC?

That's a bit more clear, I guess. Your point is that every one of the 72 personnel are not going to be Rock Stars. Most of them will have some weakness. Some will have more than others.

The mission is assigned to you - the leader/manager - to make this 72 work as a platoon. If a few of the 72 happen to be female and possess some weakness or other, it won't be a unique deficiency. It will be a weakness or deficiency that you, the leader, has seen before - and it will be managed, as you have managed such issues before. Your 72 will be an effective platoon. Your experience and methods have worked in the past and they will work now.

So you view the whole female infantry issue as a management and leadership challenge that your methods have always managed to overcome. The mission is there, and, your opinion is that all good leaders/managers can overcome any challenges.

We can all agree that there aren't going to be infantry platoons that have more than a handful of female infantry soldiers.

WRT the issue someone raised that no male infantryman will ever follow a female infantry platoon leader or infantry company commander, well, it makes no sense to deal in absolutes, so, I don't agree with that opinion, and I'm sure neither do you.