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Kristin beck, member of seal team six, is a transgender woman. seven combat tours, earned a bronze star with valor. and the purple heart. she's done a lot moresh for our country than you and i ever will.d and she made our country safer. that's the person we are going to remove from military service. >> tucker: i don't think she served as a transgender seal, though. >> no, but there are thousands serving honorably and meeting the test that the military expects of its service members. we should use the standard the president started, which is keeping our country safe. part of keeping our country...

We've had more than a year to see how it works. there hasn't been any diminishment of readiness or any disruption of any kind. what we know is men like shane ortega, another transgender service member, who conducted hundreds of missions in afghanistan and iraq, multiple combat tours, has 100% -- yes, as a matter of fact, in their art right now people like riley dosh, a cadet who graduated from the military -- >> tucker: i'm asking you a broader question. is it an actual concern that the pentagon would have to pay for sex change operations, do you think that's a valid military expense? do you t...

Going to have the same issues. >> as sobel waits in a holding area for his new housing assignment, he and deputy mcdaniel discuss something in common. combat tours in afghanistan and the possibility that they could have even crossed paths when sobel was badly injured by a roadside bomb. >> 35 miles an hour and back half of the humvee, we were going over a bridge. >> i got a platoon that was based medivac'd out of and then my platoon was based and we would pick guys up at j bad if you got blown up or whatever and fly them to badr and get them out. it was in july of 2008. >> yup. >> that was pro...

Wow. [applause] luis is here tonight along with his wife claudia. thank you, darling. thank you. luis served in the army for 16 years. he held many different positions. five combat tours, and he was always a leader, and everybody always said, i did some checking on you. you did a great job no matter where you were, no matter where you went. on his fifth deployment he bravely led his company on a mission to recover vital

[applause] luis is here tonight along with his wife claudia. thank you, darling. luis served in the army for 16 years. he held many different position on five combat tours. he was always a leader and everybody always said i did checking only you, and you did a great job no matter where you were and where you went. on his fifth deployment he bravely led his company on a successful mission to recover vital intelligence. during this critical mission his vehicle was struck by explosives. he was gravely wounds and lost his leg.