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Graduates from this current ranger school graduates this coming friday, they are expecting dozens of media outlets, not just from the united states but from all over the world to cover that graduation because something makes this class different. this class includes women. 19 women started on day one. two of them have just completed it and will graduate. 381 men started this class, 97 of them will finish. this is the first time women have been allowed to compete in ranger school and the first time that any will graduate. the obama administration said in 2013 the pentagon should open up all ser...

Places open for women except for s.e.a.l.s and combat roles. >> you mentioned the branches can request this waiver to exclude women by january 1st, but they must provide a justification for blocking women. do these justifications potentially boil down to what they would say is a woman's physical inability to do something? >> actually, it's not. women have proven they can get through ranger school. i think women will get through s.e.a.l. school eventually. the real issue here is that these are traditional brotherhood boys' clubs, very masculi masculine, very aggressive environments, and some of...

Background and service, but you say armed service committee. you helped make this happen? >> i was one of the spearheaded member do is make sure women were able to participate in combat roles and arms. women are in the support services right now and there is no opportunity for expansion of career. there is a glass ceiling for them. you look at leah gabriel, one of the contributors here. she is a fighter pilot, served, and been in a war zone. there is such a blurred area. women have died, killed, and hurt, ptsd and the whole nine yards. the question have always had is how does it affect the mis...

Nobody wants to talk about. >> i'd like you to talk about that. what's the social issue for making woman in the combat roles like this. >> yeah, for the course of humanity everything is largely protected by men and the woman are the protected in the society. by placing woman in these kind of roles -- just because they can again does not mean that they should. by placing them you're potential raising future generations where woman are now the protectors and men are the protected. i am not sure that parents of american daughters want their young girls to be forced into roles that they're the pro...

They're physiologically different than most. >> that's a different argument jeff. i certainly represent the service and that you have come on to give the opinion but one that these woman are the exception and they clearly passed the test and earned the ranger pin, so they're there. they made it, but then you're saying that even though that they made it, it's bad for society if they're protecting us. >> yeah, so i am saying that they're the exception to the rule and it opens the door to the normalization of roles of men and woman in the military. that's a potential problem in the future with th...