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Troops however he needs -- he or she needs to use them in a difficult situation. and certainly combat is a difficult situation. >> you know, let me ask you -- and i'm going to ask you more about combat and women in these wars. but, for you, how close did you ever get to a combat position? were you ever close to it? >> i never really was in the normal context, when you think of combat, you think of troops out fighting each other. i was stationed in vietnam during the vietnam war. i was in saigon, and my quarters were downtown. i stayed in a hotel a about a block and a half from the central mark...