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Please give me an example. I get you're making these generalized statements.
Commanders do not have to meet quotas for the infantry. Commanders do not have to have a quota for women in the infantry. That does not exist.
As Secretary, would you take any action to reinstitute the combat arms exclusion for female service members, knowing full well you have hundreds of women doing that job right now? And the standards. Your two-mile run, Tom, is about the Army Combat Fitness Test. It is not the requirements to have an MOS 11 Bravo, which is infantry. These are the requirements today.
for people serving in the industry, men and women, they are gender neutral and they are very difficult to meet. They have not been reduced in any way. And our combat units, our infantry is lethal.
The president has now asserted that he has the right basically to do what he thinks is necessary to save the country. And I'm asking whether that includes violating a Supreme Court order.
And I don't know. I just got to say, Mr. Chairman, that's a little bit frustrating.