By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-20 21:53:17 | Updated at 2024-11-24 00:09:52
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Defense Secretary Austin says women in military 'make us stronger'
NBC ^ | Nov. 20, 2024 | Courtney Kube and Mosheh Gains
Posted on 11/20/2024 1:46:00 PM PST by Salman
VIENTIANE, Laos — Women and racial diversity are vital to the strength of U.S. armed forces, outgoing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in an exclusive interview with NBC News as he prepares to shortly exit the top military post after four years.
“I have spent 41 years in uniform, three long tours in Iraq, one in Afghanistan, and everywhere I went on a battlefield, there were women in our formation,” Austin said. “I would tell you that, you know, our women are the finest troops in the world. Quite frankly, some of the finest in the world.”
President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Secretary of Defense is Pete Hegseth, a former Army National Guard major whose past comments about women in combat have raised questions and concerns.
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Makes Raytheon stronger perhaps?
1 posted on 11/20/2024 1:46:00 PM PST by Salman
To: Salman
He doesn’t explain how removing the male GIs and replacing them with females, makes the military stronger.
2 posted on 11/20/2024 1:49:37 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: Salman
Hegseth directly addresses this in War on Warriors, excoriating Lloyd Austin, Mark Milley and all the others for this very attitude. He citers chapter and verse the USMC’s own test results on women in combat, which said that in nearly every category, having women in a unit made the unit weaker and less combat effective.
3 posted on 11/20/2024 1:50:38 PM PST by jagusafr ( )
To: Salman
4 posted on 11/20/2024 1:51:28 PM PST by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
To: Salman
"...I have spent 41 years in uniform, three long tours in Iraq, one in Afghanistan..."
Yet, with all your "experience", and YOU in charge, you managed to perpetrate one of the most humiliating and expensive defeats in the history of this nation.
You scum-sucking, mask-wearing tyrannical, incompetent DEI Pefumed Prince sack of human feces, your incompetence resulted directly in the deaths of 13 soldiers and the exponential sorrow visited on the families and loved ones of those casualties.
That debacle was so unnecessary and avoidable, that it is obscene. I hope there is accountability for that, and I hope you pay dearly.
5 posted on 11/20/2024 1:51:57 PM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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