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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Nov 18, 2024, 07:53 PM 10 hrs ago

Should women be allowed to fight on the front lines? Trump's defense pick reignites the debate

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has reignited a debate that many thought had been long settled: Should women be allowed to serve their country by fighting on the front lines?

The former Fox News commentator has made it clear, in his own book and in interviews, that he believes men and women should not serve together in combat units. If Hegseth is confirmed by the Senate, he could try to end the Pentagon’s nearly decade-old practice of making all combat jobs open to women.

“I’m straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles. It hasn’t made us more effective. Hasn’t made us more lethal. Has made fighting more complicated,” he said in a podcast hosted by Shawn Ryan on Nov. 7. Women have a place in the military, he said, just not in special operations, artillery, infantry and armor units.

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“Where do you think I lost my legs, in a bar fight? I’m pretty sure I was in combat when that happened,” snapped Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., in an CNN interview last Wednesday after Trump’s selection was announced.

https://apnews.com/article/military-women-defense-hegseth-combat-916d50a7b465ccfea1aeb13bb91064b3

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Should women be allowed to fight on the front lines? Trump's defense pick reignites the debate (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 10 hrs ago OP
Women have always served in combat just not officially Walleye 10 hrs ago #1

Walleye

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1. Women have always served in combat just not officially
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 07:59 PM
10 hrs ago

I think the boys don’t like to compete with the girls for rank. It eliminates half the competition if they can’t serve. It’s not very bright considering they’re talking about having problems recruiting. Have they come across any prospective recruits who said they don’t want to join because it’s too woke?

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