What Pete Hegseth Doesn’t Get About Women in Combat
D onald Trump’s choice for secretary of defense, the former Army National Guard major and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, has no clear policy or management experience that qu
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I served in Iraq. Trump's Defense nominee Hegseth is wrong about women in combat.
History has shown that when we exclude others simply based on gender or race, we miss out on brilliant leaders and skilled soldiers.
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President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth, is facing a firestorm of backlash for voicing his belief that women should not serve in military combat roles.
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Pete Hegseth has made comments about women on the front lines that challenges Pentagon policy on the inclusion of women.
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Pete Hegseth has made clear, in his own words, that he is critical of military service by women and more specifically opposes female troops serving in combat roles.
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Veterans advocates and civil rights groups have been sounding the alarm after Hegseth’s nomination, pointing to regressive comments about women and LGBT+ people serving the military, as well as a track record of anti-Islam rhetoric and statements suggesting his support for deploying troops against other Americans.
Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth: “I’m straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles”
PETE HEGSETH: I'm okay with the idea that you maintain the standards where they are for everybody. And if there's some, you know, hard charging female that meets that standard, great. Cool. Join the infantry battalion. But that is not what's happened. SHAWN RYAN: Yeah.
The Retrograde New Debate About Women in Combat
What he has instead is a reactionary streak—one that’s evident in his view that women should no longer have combat roles in the military. In his recent book The War on Warriors, he implies that women service members who have received military honors for their bravery were decorated because of “an agenda.
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