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Where our sons and daughters both were told they had to go fight and do it along other genders? >> i dont think its a going to happen or b necessary. but i think from where colonel mcsally and i are coming from are different perspectives. she through in combat. air force are open to 99 perts of everyone in the air force. theres only a few special ops units available to women. in the army i am an infantry men we had units different jobs to do not more important just different. on the ground the r...

Country in a war. ceo of concerned veterans for america and also with us now is colonel martha mcsally a retired pilot and first to fly in combat since the lifting of prohibition against combat in 91. kernel l colonel let me start with you. we had the sound break saying yes that is a possible consequence of opening up these roles. a lot of women not in the arped servi armed services and women in the armed services to have equal rights that you want. when you phrase it in another way that means a...

Has everything to do with combat effectiveness. thats the core of the argument. a lot of people can inflate the two combat verses combat distinctions. its an important distinction. >> colonel let me ask you this, for a lay person like me without military experience i can understand somebody like you somebody so brave and fit and desirous of going into a military career could handle this, go into this situation and defend our country and do it willingly and professionally. but then when i picture...

Issue of the draft in a minute because it is a legitimate issue a lot of people raised. colonel mcsally does the kind of second-class status, i dont mean to call you second-class but the idea that women are not allowed in combat roles, as general dempsey said men are warriors and women are something else. do you think that contributed to the environment in which sectional way sault happens? >> when you have an environment where women are treated as second-class warriors, can do everything but no...

As a man who has been there and a man who has some experience in those kinds of units, i certainly dont want to be in that environment with a female because it is degrading and humiliating enough to do your personal hygiene and the other normal functions among your teammates. >> chris: let me ask colonel mcsally to respond to that. >> sure. again, right now we are in a 360-degree battlefield and women andmen are serving together out there in combat. privacy is a red herring. you can figure out t...

At age 18 should be registering because if the country needs you they will need you for all of the capabilities in the military. combat and noncombat and specialties. i have no problem with if we are tying citizen obligation to the readiness to defend that goes across the board. >> chris: so general boykin s that okay with you you if we have and now it is a matter of fact that the ban on women in combat ground combat has been lifted, women in the draft. >> i think you have no option. i think you...

Operations and there is no opportunity for people to have any privacy whatsoever. as a man who has been there and a man who has some experience in those kinds of units, i certainly dont want to be in that environment with a female because it is degrading and humiliating enough to do your personal hygiene and the other normal functions among your teammates. >> chris: let me ask colonel mcsally to respond to that. >> sure. again, right now we are in a 360-degree battlefield and women andmen are se...

And courage and discipline and leadership are what women bring to the fight. the pentagon estimated 75% of 17 to 24-year-olds are not even qualified to be in the military. we are recruiting from only 25% of the population. 15% go on to college. we need to recruit from a hundred percent of the population in order to make sure we have the most effective fighting force. >> chris: let me bring general boykin in here. i like the analogy of the williams sisters versus peewee herman and i would point o...

Armor, special forces, those kinds of units where i object. >> chris: we will get to the issue of the draft in a minute because it is a legitimate issue a lot of people raised. colonel mcsally does the kind of second-class status, i dont mean to call you second-class but the idea that women are not allowed in combat roles, as general dempsey said men are warriors and women are something else. do you think that contributed to the environment in which sectional way sault happens? >> when you have ...

Operations and there is no opportunity for people to have any privacy whatsoever. as a man who has been there and a man who has some experience in those kinds of units, i certainly dont want to be in that environment with a female because it is degrading and humiliating enough to do your personal hygiene and the other normal functions among your teammates. >> chris: let me ask colonel mcsally to respond to that. >> sure. again, right now we are in a 360-degree battlefield and women andmen are se...