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Noel King

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Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

Whose idea was it for you to carry 250 tampons?

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

Whose idea was it for you to carry 250 tampons?

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

Let me ask you a question about six pull-ups. Were there any men who you were physically superior to? Like in ranger school, were there any men who could only do five pull-ups? Or was it basically like, look, women have different... Women have different levels of strength, upper body strength. And so six is good, but that's sort of the low point.

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

Let me ask you a question about six pull-ups. Were there any men who you were physically superior to? Like in ranger school, were there any men who could only do five pull-ups? Or was it basically like, look, women have different... Women have different levels of strength, upper body strength. And so six is good, but that's sort of the low point.

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

Let me ask you a question about six pull-ups. Were there any men who you were physically superior to? Like in ranger school, were there any men who could only do five pull-ups? Or was it basically like, look, women have different... Women have different levels of strength, upper body strength. And so six is good, but that's sort of the low point.

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

So in ranger school, there's only one standard for the fitness test. Everybody's got to meet it. Correct. And that allows you to get out of ranger school and say, look... Fellas, I took the same test as the men and I passed. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is saying that Army combat jobs should only have one standard of fitness for both men and women.

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

So in ranger school, there's only one standard for the fitness test. Everybody's got to meet it. Correct. And that allows you to get out of ranger school and say, look... Fellas, I took the same test as the men and I passed. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is saying that Army combat jobs should only have one standard of fitness for both men and women.

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

So in ranger school, there's only one standard for the fitness test. Everybody's got to meet it. Correct. And that allows you to get out of ranger school and say, look... Fellas, I took the same test as the men and I passed. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is saying that Army combat jobs should only have one standard of fitness for both men and women.

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

And there's part of me that thinks, doesn't that allow the women who meet the standards to be like, look, we met the same standards as the men? Nothing suspicious here, guys.

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

And there's part of me that thinks, doesn't that allow the women who meet the standards to be like, look, we met the same standards as the men? Nothing suspicious here, guys.

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

And there's part of me that thinks, doesn't that allow the women who meet the standards to be like, look, we met the same standards as the men? Nothing suspicious here, guys.

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

Secretary Hegseth has a lot to say about women, and sometimes he says it directly and sometimes he alludes to it. What he often does is he talks about lethality as something that is critically important for the military. He says the Army in particular needs more of it, but he never really defines what he means by lethality. What is the definition as you understand it?

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

Secretary Hegseth has a lot to say about women, and sometimes he says it directly and sometimes he alludes to it. What he often does is he talks about lethality as something that is critically important for the military. He says the Army in particular needs more of it, but he never really defines what he means by lethality. What is the definition as you understand it?

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

Secretary Hegseth has a lot to say about women, and sometimes he says it directly and sometimes he alludes to it. What he often does is he talks about lethality as something that is critically important for the military. He says the Army in particular needs more of it, but he never really defines what he means by lethality. What is the definition as you understand it?

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

To your average civilian like myself, I hear lethality and I think, I do, I think of the dictionary definition, the ability to kill. Does this definition of lethality involve the ability both physically and emotionally and psychologically to kill another person? Yeah, absolutely. And so when Secretary Hegseth cast doubt on the ability of women to be as lethal as men, do you think there's...

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

To your average civilian like myself, I hear lethality and I think, I do, I think of the dictionary definition, the ability to kill. Does this definition of lethality involve the ability both physically and emotionally and psychologically to kill another person? Yeah, absolutely. And so when Secretary Hegseth cast doubt on the ability of women to be as lethal as men, do you think there's...

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

To your average civilian like myself, I hear lethality and I think, I do, I think of the dictionary definition, the ability to kill. Does this definition of lethality involve the ability both physically and emotionally and psychologically to kill another person? Yeah, absolutely. And so when Secretary Hegseth cast doubt on the ability of women to be as lethal as men, do you think there's...

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

Do you think there's some stuff baked in there that maybe gets to his idea of what women are willing and able to do? Yeah, possibly.

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

Do you think there's some stuff baked in there that maybe gets to his idea of what women are willing and able to do? Yeah, possibly.

Today, Explained
Should women be in combat?

Do you think there's some stuff baked in there that maybe gets to his idea of what women are willing and able to do? Yeah, possibly.