baremember, and they had a male battalion. and so they carved this ouion, an for six months provided datad that showed readinessan and capability and they provided i provit and said, heys not as effective here as thecti. data in the six months that weuo used our resources to prove this. y of the and the secretary of the navy, ray mabus, said , i don't care what we're done. right. so i was at the basic school atw the time where we create mlseprd and we do alinl this thing. prd we do alinl this thing. briefs to a panel calledsory dacoits. wom it's likene the defense advisory for women in combat is a congressional panel. and so that was what i spent most of my time on .e so i was getting frustrated. the whole organizationwhole was getting frustrated. so ray mabus thehen came down tl to the basic school to talk to us because this whole conversation that we're having was ersation that we're having is talking about everything, we're what i just said . but therng, e wasaids one point sticks out clearly in my mindcl because everyone agrees everyone should haveearl an equt opportunity to go out and try out for whatever that standard is . but the question is , arestion standards going to lowerin to shove in some of these initiatives?