Pete Hegseth

I mean, he was calling down to individual units to make sure they had female company commanders after they graduated from ranger school.

Like, what's the chairman of the Joint Chiefs doing pushing company command slots?

It's all an agenda.

It's all to say, oh, we have this first or we have this, that.

So that's proliferated everywhere.

The reason women started getting in combat is because of forward support companies, and they were, you know, we were integrating a lot of the rear echelon activities into BCTs, Brigade Combat Teams, that were now deploying forward as an entity.

And so you had women truck drivers or fuel or mechanics on these convoys in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then they'd be ambushed or hit by IEDs, and suddenly now you have women in combat.

That's maybe a modern reality in a 360 battlefield.

That's different than intentionally saying, we're going to put women into combat roles so they will do the combat jobs of men, knowing that we've changed the standards in putting them there, which means you've changed the capability of that unit.

And if you say you haven't, you're a liar.

Because everybody knows between bone density and lung capacity and muscle strength, men and women are just different.

And so if you want to, I'm okay with the idea that you maintain the standards where they are for everybody.

And if there's some hard-charging female that meets that standard, great, cool, join the infantry battalion.

But that is not what's happened.

What has happened is the standards have lowered because the general comes by and asks a question.

You know what questions are when generals ask questions.

They're just a command.

Lieutenant or captain or major, why aren't there more women in your unit?

That means get some more women in your unit now.

And that moves all the way through the training pipeline.