Women in military combat roles?

[Spartan198]

Obviously it works in movies like GI Jane and TV shows like Ultimate Force, putting a pretty little lady or two on an elite unit that would otherwise be a testosterone-filled sausage-fest. It also works in video games like Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six. Reason being that it's good entertainment. But real life hardly ever works out like movies, TV, and video games.

There also exist a lot of myths and legends like Delta's infamous "funny platoon", a unit supposedly composed entirely of female shooters.

What do you guys think of the idea of women being allowed in combat roles and Special Operations in reality? The Israelis have recently started opening combat roles to women, but obviously the level of military readiness in Israel is quite different to the United States. I've read on MP.net that Canadian JTF2 allows women to enter Selection and that Polish GROM has female operators.

So... opinions?