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And what ive seen in my 38 years in the military, whats interesting is all the minor stuff goes away and i would consider this a minor thing. we have people serving in the military transgender and there hasnt been that many indicators of any kind of morale issues or team issues related to this. >> i agree to the point that yes, the military has led the way in many things but this is not a policy change that has to be done overnight. the president is being very, very careful -- >> it hasnt been d...

Intervention in iraq and afghanistan. what do you think they are thinking or rethinking at this point? >> well, certainly you have to make, take steps, affirmative steps if you see this sort of disillusionment and discontent or isolation from the rest of the troops. i mean the troops are there together. the great thing about the military is military cohesion and unit cohesiveness, if you have somebody removed like hasan, somebody has to pick up on that. the great irony of this, jamie, he is a ps...

Bringing women into combat troops is inevitably going to change unit cohesiveness because sex is inevitable. aros is a powerful and irrational passion, and this is normal, natural, nobody is at fault for this. people forming sexual attachments and thats going to, i think, disrupt how soldiers relate when the sole mission should be destroying the enemy. >> joe sustik, do you think that america is ready for women in combat prisoners of war and stories they have to tell their families, do you think...

Discount. it is powerful cultural norm to protect. not necessarily all cultural and sometimes can be biological and hardwired. that is something to worry about unit cohesiveness and how that works. the military is very good accommodating new things and working through these and making them merit-based. i hope that is indeed what will happen. the reality even though you needless brute strength than you did in the past youre still running around with that battle gear on and sometimes hundreds of p...

Bringing women into combat troops is inevitably going to change unit cohesiveness because sex is inevitable. aros is a powerful and irrational passion, and this is normal, natural, nobody is at fault for this. people forming sexual attachments and thats going to, i think, disrupt how soldiers relate when the sole mission should be destroying the enemy. >> joe sustik, do you think that america is ready for women in combat prisoners of war and stories they have to tell their families, do you think...

Arguments against this, sort of societal norms are similar to gays serving openly in the military and in fact we saw with that the transition has been relatively uneventful and many of our allies already have gays serving openly in the military. have for a long time. and also have women serving on the front lines in combat already. and theres been no deterioration in unit cohesiveness. theres no deterioration in effectiveness. so, lacking any evidence that this would create a problem, i dont see...

Job at hand. of course the u.s. is fighting two wars right now. >> i think a lot of the arguments are personal opinions of individuals, which i respect their opinions, but i dont think someones opinion is enough to say that i should not serve in the military. at the same time im sitting here in a studio in buffalo doing an interview where former colleagues and friends of mine are serving their third, fourth or fifth tour in iraq or afghanistan. >> what about unit cohesiveness, thats another shai...