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It's about physical differences. i have respect for women like jesse who served 20 years in the corps, served this nation. they add an immense value to what our nation does. at the end of the day as a platoon leader in iraq i want a guy or a person who is capable of crawling over the wall, dragging that heavy guy off the battle field. i don't care about equality. i want standards. i want excellence. i want combat effectiveness. trying to pursue equality to make everyone feel good, big surprise, it's cutting women out of capable roles in the marine corps because we have arbitrary standards. it ...

It's about physical differences. i have respect for women like jesse who served 20 years in the corps, served this nation. they add an immense value to what our nation does. at the end of the day as a platoon leader in iraq i want a guy or a person who is capable of crawling over the wall, dragging that heavy guy off the battle field. i don't care about equality. i want standards. i want excellence. i want combat effectiveness. trying to pursue equality to make everyone feel good, big surprise, it's cutting women out of capable roles in the marine corps because we have arbitrary standards. it ...

The days of rambo are over. >> reporter: in january, then defense secretary leon panetta signed an order saying women must have the same opportunities as men in the military. opening 200,000 jobs previously not open to women. >> we don't set female marines up for failure. >> i was encouraged by physical performance of some of the girls. >> reporter: they have until 2016 to make changes or request exemption from the defense secretary for special operators like navy s.e.a.l.s and army rangers. >> i am not comfortable with the term gender neutral standards. we have standards and they equate to an...

>> why are they doing it? not to improve combat effectiveness. it's only to advance diversity metrics. that's the president's agenda. >> i'm not comfortable with the neutral standards. we have standards and they equate to a -- our mission is different so our standards are different. >> the chairman of the joint chiefs says he sees this as a potential way of combating the rising issue of sexual assault in the military. >> when you have one part of the population that is designated as warriors and another part that's designated as something else, i think that disparity begins to establish a psyc...

Has everything to do with combat effectiveness. that's the core of the argument. a lot of people can inflate the two combat verses combat distinctions. it's an important distinction. >> colonel let me ask you this, for a lay person like me without military experience i can understand somebody like you somebody so brave and fit and desirous of going into a military career could handle this, go into this situation and defend our country and do it willingly and professionally. but then when i picture a kid -- say it changed tomorrow and 18-year-olds tomorrow had to register and god forbid we had ...