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That was possible, you would have been a better person for the military. >> that is an actual truth. >> in total, more than 13,000 service members were discharged under dont ask, dont tell until president obama put an end to it in 2011. while the military has been making strides to be more lgbtq plus positive, out of nowhere, president trump banned transgender service members in 2017 citing, you guessed it. >> it erodes military readiness and unit cohesion. >> while president biden has since rev...

Families. a lot of people dont see that. its not just us. you take us away from our country, but you affect our whole family. >> knowing all that you have been through, how do you feel about your military service? >> theyre not going to ever take that away from us. we will always be u.s. soldiers. we will always be u.s. veterans. we just need to keep fighting, bro. were not going to quit, man. they trained us too good. they trained us too good as u.s. soldiers. they trained us to never, never qu...

>> the biggest challenge was hiding who i was. because i got out before dont ask, dont tell. >> banning the discrimination of enlistment based on sexual orientation. it required gay and lesbian service members to keep thsecre >> it is my duty to group hold the high standard of unit cohesion of the worlds finist fighting force. >> unit cohesion, combat readiness, good order and discipline. if you look through the history, these are the rationalizations you will hear again and again. first used to...

Same kinds of statements that i cut up like cheese at the trial. so these are of no meaning. whats your take? >> we dont often seen the inside of a s.e.a.l. team room. this is the inside of a dysfunctional s.e.a.l. team room. it shows the breakdown of unit cohesion. i think we should take these videos seriously because these s.e.a.l.s would have faced pretty serious repercussions if they lied to investigators. they may not have been formally sworn or under oath or cross-examined, but these s.e.a...

Obvious, said look, these arent sworn, these are of known meaning. whats your take in. >> we dont often see the inside of a seal room. this is the inside of a dysfunctional seal teams room. it shows the breakdown of unit cohesion. we should take these videos seriously because the seals would have faced pretty serious repercussions had they lied to ncis investigators here. they may not have been formally sworn or under oath but these seals werent cavalier live making these statements. you can ima...

Has broader disciplinary issues to worry about. >> thats right. the discipline issue is clear here that when a group of navy s.e.a.l.s turned against gallagher, rightfully and testified against him, they basically are saying we cannot sustain unit cohesion or focus if someone like gallagher is in that, but then it also gets to what are we -- what -- how are we sort of -- i dont know the right words, training or teaching people who are in the military? right? this is a sophisticated group of smar...

Transgender americans from enlisting in the military. >> they take massive amounts of drugs, they have to, and also -- and youre not allowed to take drugs. you know, in the military, youre not allowed to take any drugs. you take an aspirin, and they have to after the operation. they have to. they have no choice. they have to. and you would actually have to break rules and regulations in order to have that. >> this argument is just false. u.s. servicemen and women can and do take prescription dru...

Served on the front lines and sometimes paid the ultimate sacrifice there is an estimated fourteen thousand transgender soldiers and u.s. military but now their status is in doubt today a new trump administration policy goes into effect which critics say will ban transgender people from joining and force others to choose between their country and their gender identity im called assman and this is the day. one of our national institutions will be turning back the clock on equality as you know its...

Would be minimal or negligible effect on the military unit ready unit cohesion or military readiness if transgender troops were allowed to serve openly and if i thought its come to pass in three years and three years of transitor been able to serve openly there have been zero problems and we have this from our top military leaders so its not a matter of debate at this point weve already settled this issue there is no burden on the military that comes from transgender service members serving open...

All walks of society. the me too movement does that as well. it is a heavily dominated mail culture. i do hope there will be a tipping point where certain types of hyper masculine behaviors are no longer accepted. i think this is a leadership issue. it needs to be top down from the secretary on down. i certainly tried to bring that in office. it also needs to be from the bottom up at the lower levels. the vast majority of military members would not accept a sexual assault. you have to keep your ...