THE PREMISE IS A CROCK !!!!!
DO NOT GET ME WRONG -- I LOVE AND ADMIRE WOMEN BUT NOT IN THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES....SOF - are the top 2-3% of troops in - shooting, running, swimming, strength, climbing, hand-to-hand, endurance, mental toughness/tactics, et al. They have typically been through other very hard training programs before - jump and/or ranger school and are honors grads. This top 2-3% is always -MALE.
Women do an excellent job in noncombat roles and have improved the military in admin, customer svs roles, etc. I am retired military and have seen the ways women have improved the DOD when I came back as a DOD contractor recently. The current problems are keeping women out of combat zone deployments for humane reasons - new babies, sick family, etc. The Amazons who enjoyed the Desert -OEF/OIF- deployments I actually came to admire.
I light sparred with a young lady E-4 who was the OIF womens' boxing champ. Despite my being +25 years her senior it quickly became apparent that when I could catch her I could drop her with ease - if I had wanted to. She had the mobility - I the + 120 lb weight advantage. I admired her game attitude though - in the ring and in the field with an M-4 escorting contractors. As greatly as I admired the girl she was still not an SF candidate.
Other countries have tried to use women in SOF roles before -- it did not work for: the Brits, Isreal, or USSR. I know they have used some women in sniper-USSR WW II - and security - Isreal; but SF is a whole other kettle of fish. It is like the NFL - women can play football but they cannot compete with the best of the best males physically and win. Infantry in history - yes -- SF - no.
As far as helping her career - SOF is generally a career grave yard - at least in years past. Most men in SOF are busy training, or on missions, with the fleet or in the air. They are not doing the sort of bs programs that get command notice. SOF is on a need to know basis so SOF is "out of sight and out of mind." Many excellent SF troops retire at Major vs Lt Col or Bird- O-6 - 1-2 grades/ranks behind the pencil pushers.
It is still unlawful for women to be in direct combat MOSs in the US. In SOF small unit operations, the weakest link can get an entire unit killed - no is left behind. The men of SOF must be able to carry a wounded 220 lb buddy on their back - both in full 80 lbs of gear for miles if necessary. Could Demi do that even with all her spa hours ???? Be realistic. Who on this board is another SOF vet ???
Demi whipping the Chief is also a crock. I was beating female black belts in Dojo sparring in my teens as a Yellow belt. I was not the best male in the Dojo either- at that point. This is why sports are generally gender segregated - even in marksmanship. Women have actually WON NRA Open competitions but it is as rare as a space shuttle disaster.
SOF is in all three major branches USN, USA, and USAF as well as in the USMC which is a corp of the Navy - recon. I like ladies and am married to a former NOW local officer; but most of the lady posters are civilians with very little knowledge of the military. You may have seen a film or had an uncle in the service but I hope you will not argue that that confers expertise upon you.
There is also the MEO factor. Female military members are trained to make a bee line for MEO, if they dislike a male's jokes or his passing on a naughty e-mail with a Jay Leno joke on it. The MEO = the military EEOC. Men have lost their military careers over off color jokes, much less the conduct exhibited in this film. To allow such conduct to occur in your command would end careers up to the admiral/flag ranks. I have seen this happen in the military and law enforcement.
In the real world the Chief would have been court martialed for conduct unbecoming an NCO, abuse of authority, and aggrevated sexual battery. He would then spend years in Portsmouth or Charleston Brig.