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What they bring to the fight. the current policy basiccalcy says -- >> chris: if i can follow up on that. the marine infantry officer corps offered last september a course training and two women took part and both dropped out and said carrying the 70-pound backpacks in infantry on the ground is too tough for women. are you confident that women can meet the same physical standards for ground combat that men do? >> look, we know the bell curve of men is stronger than the bell curve of women but th...

Operations when you are in close quarters there is no privacy and rugged living conditions. look in your camera and tell general boykin why he is wrong? >> let me just say that i realize that flying combat aircraft and bying on the ground in combat are two very different missions. the same flawed arguments were used against allowing women to fly in combat and now allowing women to be in ground combat like general boykin has said. these are flawed arguments. the bottom line is we need to treat pe...

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