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Teaching styles and for the really good teachers who change your life, thats super frustrating. >> that is the most important number. it dropped from 76 to 40 in support for teachers of common core, and thats because theyve been exposed to it. theyve seen hath that isnt math -- math that isnt math or stripping away civics education isnt a good idea. and it forces parents to make a tough decision. im a public school kid, i support the idea of quality public schools, but im sending my little gunne...

There was a gunner on the yard. theres also a gunner in here. they shoot real bullets. it aint easy being in this mother [ bleep ] gym. whether it be over phone calls, showers, [ bleep ], whatever it is, its a problem in here. when you spend 365 days in this mother [ bleep ], youll be stressed out. believe that! >> dont never come back in here like this. [ bleep ] whats wrong with you? back up side by side. two by two. >> now youre doing what they want you to do. you know what that means? that m...

Rid of them because theyll quit in the middle of something. now you have this program -- >> i lo v that. >> so i dont even like to hear anybody whining. >> i love that you brought that moment up, that you have to do this with support, that it takes a unit and the unit has tobaccosive because critics and naysayers said if youve got women in a mans unit it wont be the same brethren, wont be the same cohesion. theres a moment that happened earlier where i think it was lieutenant havers, lieutenant ...

Lot of weight on me and i was struggling and i stopped and i asked at a halfway point, can anyone help take some of this weight? i got a lot of deer in the headlight looks and a lot of people were like i cant take any more weight. shaye was the only one to volunteer to take that weight. she took the weight off me. she carried it the last half of that. i probably wouldnt be sitting here if it wasnt for shaye. >> reporter: and that is what is so critical and has nothing to do with gender. in comba...

In the ranger school with these women had to say because i imagine some of them had their doubts in the beginning, and then really spoke out in support. in fact, several of the men who graduated from the program with these women say they showed more strength than several of the men. lets take a listen. >> there was one night we were doing a long walk. i was the 320 gunner so i had a lot of weight on me and i was struggling and i stopped and i asked at a halfway point, hey, can anyone help take s...

About whether or not women can be in combat units by sending to the toughest school in the united states army. if they get through it theres no argument anymore about whether or not women should be in combat units. i think its just a matter of time before you find women in combat units. princely as a result of this. >> women have served in combat where it be a gunner on a chopper, defending convoys. we certainly have seen it. one bit of controversy is there have been some ranger alum, men around...

Way. >> when corcoran was built in 1988, it was supposed to house no more than 3,000 inmates, today that number is almost double. some cells that were designed to hold one person now house two men in a 6 x 12 concrete box. the overcrowding at the prison forced officials to convert the gymnasium into densely packed living quarters for over 120 of the lowest-risk inmates. >> people are real irritable and tempers flare. this is not a place that you could house so many people for a very long time. >...

I airport scared of no man in here and i know a whole lot of dudes feel the same way. >> when corcoran was built in 1988, it was supposed to house no more than 3,000 inmates, today that number is almost double. some cells that were designed to hold one person now house two men in a six by 12 concrete box. the overcrowding at the prison forced officials to convert the gymnasium into densely packed living quarters for over 120 of the lowest-risk inmates. >> people are real irritable and tempers fl...

License for him to make sure he was of age, didnt ask any questions of why do you need this kind of bullet why do you need that many? we need to have some regulations put in place so this kind of thing is going to continue to happen again and again and again. >> gunners website was designed to not have to ask anyone any questions. thats wrong. >> you wanted the court order requiring these companies to change their business practices as you pointed out. this case is now waiting action from the 10...

>> it was coming down all over. my gunner kept complaining. he was, like, its raining down on me, sergeant dawes. im getting trashed up here. >> they can feel the force of the blast inside their armored vehicle. >> the shock waves hit us -- it rings everybodys bell. you could definitely feel it, but it was more of a punch to your chest. >> the eruption is unlike anything the soldiers have ever seen. >> i didnt know what the hell happened. >> its like slow motion. >> dude, i didnt know what happe...