Duckworth on Hegseth speaking out against women in combat: 'Where do you think I lost my legs?'

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Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) criticized President-elect Trump’s nomination of Fox News host Pete Hegseth as Defense secretary, after he called for women to not serve in combat roles. “Where do you think I lost my legs?” Duckworth told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in an interview Wednesday.

Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran and Purple Heart recipient, was among some of the first women to fly combat missions as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot. Her helicopter was hit by a grenade in 2004, and she lost both legs and some mobility in her right arm. Hegseth, who Trump tapped Tuesday to lead his Department of Defense, is also an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, and he now serves as co-host of Fox News’s “Fox & Friends Weekend.”

He has called for the firing of other generals involved in diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and said women should not serve in combat roles. “Look, he’s not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense, and obviously, he’s made these comments about how he doesn’t think women should be in combat and that he wants to be able to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,” Duckworth said in Wednesday’s interview, highlighted by Mediaite. “I ask him, how does that strengthen our nation’s military?” “We can’t go to war today without our women military members,” she said, noting there are more than 225,000 active-duty women serving in the military right now.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4990200-tammy-duckworth-pete-hegseth-women-in-combat/

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1. oh look, another Trump humper who is afraid of women

he is trashing military women while serving for Cadet Bonespurs - FUCK HIM

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2. Given the military can't fill the roster already, excluding women will only make that worse. They thinking draft?

That will be exceptionally popular...not! I am waiting for someone...the military is already there....but on the political side to realize, at least for military purposes, we 1) aren't making enough kids and 2) the kids we are making either aren't mentally/emotionally/ educationally or physically suited to current military needs. I saw a video somewhere that was a fairly recent presentation by a Marine general who stated that of 100 potential recruits they talk to, only a handful can actually make muster to get in the Corps. I would assume the other services are having similar experiences.