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Units, but the larmg majority of casualties we've staepd is from rear echelon units, drivers and military police people and so on. those are the people who get blown up, or in the past have gotten blown up. the reality is in keeping women out of combat units, we've guaranteed they'll be blown up and guaranteed them as casualties in the conflict. >> this is quite an elite group. do you get together? if so, what are those gatherings like? >> we get together once a year, but really it's more than once a year. so we have a number of functions. we go to the inaugurals. we have a spectacular event a...

We will not have achieved what we said initially was our objective in afghanistan, and that's to destroy the taliban. >> so then should we not be leaving? >> we shouldn't be leaving if we want to accomplish an issue. we should be leaving if we're not willing to allocate the resources necessary in order to accomplish that mission. >> so back to my original question, when we leave, will we have won? >> if the objective is to destroy the taliban and make sure they don't come back, no, the answer is we will not have won. and people will tell you that. military people will tell you that right now. ...

Women in combat. marine commandant general james amos. saying quote, if the numbers are so small regarding qualification, there may very well job fields that remain closed. those will be few and far between. the general went on to say you have only one or two female servicemembers in the unit that would make it difficult for the women to assimilate and succeed. what about all this? general jack keane is fox news military analyst, former army vice chief of staff. you were on the other day with us making an argument with kt mcfarland that you were against this idea in the first place. this man a...

And courage and discipline and leadership are what women bring to the fight. the pentagon estimated 75% of 17 to 24-year-olds are not even qualified to be in the military. we are recruiting from only 25% of the population. 15% go on to college. we need to recruit from a hundred percent of the population in order to make sure we have the most effective fighting force. >> chris: let me bring general boykin in here. i like the analogy of the williams sisters versus peewee herman and i would point out that colonel mcsally competed in the military division men and women in hawaii and she won. what ...

Announce that we are eliminating the direct ground combat exclusion rule for women. and we are moving forward with a plan to eliminate all unnecessary gender-based barriers to service. >> just like that, 200,000 military combat jobs that were once off limits for women are potentially open to any woman who meets the qualifications. more importantly, the official policy for women in the u.s. military has now caught up with what has long been the reality for women in the u.s. military. women already make up 15% of the overall force and 17% of the officers in the military, but the pentagon's lates...