Page 8 - Combat Effectiveness News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Is an organization that is results oriented. they're at combat effectiveness and also, the best way to get the job done. but there's that mentality that every marine is a rifleman and that mentality will always be there. i don't think the study detracts from anyone. if you look at the summary, the opening paragraph also states that it xhenlds and it says the female marines that have served in iraq and marines served superbly. >> take us into your experience. >> you can talk to you from my perspective. i have, after officer candidate school and quantityco, i was in the african crisis response i...

I don't understand how this works with just 15,000. it seems to me that you inevitably escalate and you end up with a whole lot more than that. >> colonel nagl, your response? >> first they're not all at war with each other. second, 15,000 american advisers is plenty. we currently have no american advisers intended. i trained advisers during the earlier phases of this war, teams of a dozen or so american advisers inside a battalion of 500 or so troops will multiply the combat effectiveness of those forces. the iraqi and kurdish forces will be able to hold the territory once it's been cleared l...

Essentially? and essentially right now we're supporting three different groups who are all at war with each other. the kurds and the shiites and sunnis, do you send -- put advisers with all of them so they all fight each other? i don't understand how this works with just 15,000. it seems to me that you inevitably escalate and you end up with a whole lot more than that. >> colonel nagl your response? >> first they're not all at war with each other. second 15,000 american advisers is plenty. we currently have no american advisers intended. i trained advisers during the earlier phases of this war...

Differences. i have an immense amount of respect for women like jessie jane they add immense amount of value. as a platoon leader in iraq i want to have a guy or a person who is capable of crawling over that wall of dragging that heavy guy off the battlefield. i don't care about equality. i want standard. i want excellence. i want combat effectiveness. trying to pursue pursue a quality and make everybody feel good it is cutting out the marine corps because we are setting arbitrary standards it is us falling over ourselves as opposed to carrying out the best fighter. >> what is the solution? >>...

It's about literal, physical differences. i have an immense amount of respect for women like jesse jane who served the nation, and they add an immense amount of value to what our nation does, but at the end of the day, i want a guy or a person who is capable of crawling over the wall, of dragging that heavy guy off the battlefield. i don't care about equality. i want standards, i want excellence, i want combat effectiveness. trying to pursue equality in the pursuit of making everyone feel good, in this case, big surprise, it's cutting women out of capable roles in the marine corps because we'r...