infantry officer course at quantico this month. this is a grueling 86-day training course designed to weed out marine infantry officers. she played ice hockey in college. she squatts 200 pounds and benches 145 pounds. she has already seen combat. two tours, one in iraq and an even tougher one in afghanistan. she ranked fourth out of 52 candidates in officer candidate school. i read the article five years ago when i finished basic school and pinned on as an officer. i would have fully the supported integration of females into the infantry. after two combat deployments, my perspective has completely changed. reporter: women go through the combat endurance test which has elements similar to hand-to-hand can combat seen in the army training video. the captain worries as the department of defense looks for ways to level the playing field for women they may be harming female
spread out all over afghanistan. right. congressman patrick murphy, a democrat, said the military is at war and the country is not. let me get your thoughts on those words. i think it s quite true. it s not just the military. it s also the cia and selected elements of national power. foreign service officers, usaid, etcetera. we re pushing 57,000 u.s. killed and wounded. a lot of the young troops, mid career officers, have five or more combat deployments. so it is an all out effort and they re doing a magnificent job, at huge risk. we need to take into account that the coming 24 months are the riskiest of the war so far. right. they need our support both political and financial. i don t want to drag into the political argument over who is right and who is wrong here but there is not a lot of contrast between what mitt romney is saying and what the president has said.
wars, who have gone out on two, three, four, five, six, seven combat deployments, it has been all-consuming. for the rest of us, for the 99% of americans who have not been fighting in those wars, we are still trying to figure out as civilians how to acknowledge and appreciate and say thank you to the people that have been doing the fighting and making the sacrifice and whose lives have been so different than our civilian lives. the iraq war ended in december. here is what it looked like at home, an address from the president and a state dinner to recognize a symbolic portion of the troops that served in iraq. no national moment of recognition that regular americans could participate in to mark the ending of that war. that s not the end of the story. regular americans in cities around the country have wanted to do something that people could participate in, and regular americans coast to coast have started organizing on their own in cities large and small, to have parades to mark the en
ahmadinejad on the spot. the president summoned before parliament for the first time since the 1979 revolution. conservative parliament members called him out on everything from the limping economy, which is a victim of u.s. sanctions, to his public disagreements with the ayatollah who of course is a supreme leader of iran. now, ahmadinejad tries to make jokes and he made no secret of his distain for the event saying, quote, the fact is that i tried not to attend this session, but i guess it was ordained that i should come, so there is nothing i could do about it. i met him once in person. that seems the way she would have delivered it. there s much more going on. president obama watched today as tehran action, and he used some of the strongest language while standing next to the prime minister of america s closest ally. they must infer they can t escape or invade the choice before it. meet your obligations or face the consequences. while leaving no room for doubt, the pr
and outfront tonight, ahmadinejad on the spot. an unexpected spectacle in tehran today. the president summoned before parliament for the first time since the 1979 revolution. conservative parliament members called ahmadinejad out on everything from the limping economy, which is a victim of u.s. sanctions, to his public disagreements with the ayatollah who, of course, is the supreme leader of iran. ahmadinejad tried to make jokes, and he made no secret of his disdain for this event, saying, quote, the fact is that i tried not to attend this session, but i guess it was ordained that i should come, so there was nothing i could do about it. i met him once in person. that sort of seemed the way he might have delivered that, a little nonchalant. a growing power struggle between ahmadinejad and the supreme leader khomeini. president obama watched tehran s action and he used some of his strongest language yet while standing next to the prime minister of america s closest ally.