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On fire? >> know, that part of it is missing. >> there is a hole and somebody went out? >> the airport is insight. good day. >> arizona republican congresswoman martha mc sally, retired air force col. who wants to honor shoes, yourself and aviator, what did you think when you heard this? >> she is my hero. she paved the way for me. i was a fighter pilot but she was a fighter pilot before. they b an aggressor but would not let her be in a combat unit. i'm grateful for her. when i saw what she did and i listened to the whole tape start the finish, she was amazing. >> he had a dream of being and ...

Do phases because that's what the military is used to doing. and make that change and execute it in a way that creates a positive environment for everyone involved, to include the transgender people. that is not what the obama administration did. that was the 11th hour shot across the bough of social conservatism as an attempt to preserve some attempt of legacy of change and it didn't work. that's the problem at hand. steve: it sound like you were suggesting that president obama suggested this because it was political. but you mentioned a couple times efficiency with the military regarding thi...

He is cocky and he'll say things that are not true. i come back to the transgender thing. i'm so infuriated by it. because there are questions about women in combat, paying for certain operations. those are debated, i would say very seriously and in a dignified way over the last six, seven, eight years. don't ask/don't tell, and grappling with the tensions between the small combat unit an outpost and then the integration of the genders -- >> and we have been at war. >> it shows deeply though he thinks it's a dictatorship. he thinks he wakes up and decides we should expel 2,400 in the military ...

We close this morning with a simple question. is it ever too late to honor a hero? waverly woodson fought in world war ii as part of the only black combat unit. now a new book is telling his story, and his widow is fighting to make sure his legacy is not forgotten. >> june 6th, 1944, dark. jerry's steel pill boxes on the cliff sliced us in two like a but butcher's knife. >> waverly woodson was a medic in world war ii. a member of the only black combat unit at d-day. woodson took fire that day and was hit with shrapnel. it didn't stop him. for 30 straight hours on omaha

Just don't lose sight of it and remind yourself of why you're there and they'll be fine. >> let's fly at 30,000 feet. this is very significant. what do you think it will actually do for young women out there seeing this around the country who perhaps thought about a military career? >> i think it will motivate them. what's interesting about this is the whole notion about women in combat units. the army could have argued against women in combat units or done some intermediary thing like sticking women in combat units but not in combat, only stateside, only in training in the united states, don'...