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Brigadier general terry williams cited a poor command climate and the lost of the trust and confidence in her ability to serve and command. the marine corps holds all marines, especially commanders, to a high set of standards. that's what lieutenant colonel germnano wanted for all accounts. she in the the failure rate for females on the rifle range was three times as that of men and a year later she had improved that to 90%. she pushed for parity. in a letter to her battalion after being fired teague quote, together we redefined the perceived physical and mental limits of female recruits and m...

Women soldiers. we were inspecting men and women, commanding outfits fully integrated. the journey of all women that came in at was to pursue that integration. when i look back on almost four decades and think about a where we were to where we are today, it makes me smile. doors continue to open. >> what about women in combat roles? it happened almost unofficially. they were forward deployed. as front lines disappears they became -- they were in combat in the air and on the ground. >> you're absolutely right. policy is catching up with reality. women have been -- when we got rid of linear batt...

Leadership strategies from america's first female four-star general. i sat down with the general to talk about trail she blazed and what it takes to succeed. >> i'm not the first one. when i got promoted i said i may be the first but i'm certainly not the last. now three others two in the air force and one in the navy and i'm sure more in the making. >> that's not nearly enough. >> they didn't integrate women into the regular army until right after i joined the army in 1975. so women denominator didn't have the opportunity to have the same career path as their male counter-parts as i did. the ...

The information late new york governor mario cuomo tomorrow. i covered him. and he was wonderful man. always very nice to me. i want to express my personal condolences to the entire cuomo family especially our colleague chris cuomo and the governor of new york andrew cuomo, the entire cuomo family. thanks very much for joining us. ♪ all right here we go. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. thanks so much for being here with me on this monday. we have some breaking news from the pentagon. the pentagon confirming moments ago that u.s. troops in iraq are under quote-unquote regular attac...

Here. just how close are these so-called advisers getting to the actual combat and how much is this reason for alarm? >> well i think there's huge reason for alarm. we're getting reports that the front may be as close as ten kilometers or just about six miles from this important base. it's the largest military base a former u.s. military base that we used during the iraq war in anbar region i think what's important to remember geographically is that isis in october already took three other military bases. smaller ones but important ones between baghdad and this base and so this base can't be r...