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Actually come to the course. So thats a key part of that piece, and then when it comes to the communications, clearly a communications is a big part of our trust. We need to explain why the gender neutral standards, how were going to ensure that everybody meets those standards, both men and women, why theyre necessary for the occupation in the first place because theres some question as to is it really the right task that should be done in these standards, in these different moss, and then that by communicating that a little more effectively than we have, this is going to help us build the trust for both men and women to want to continue down that pipeline for those different areas. Thats an important part of the implementation plan. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, please. Sue fulton, im the chair of the u. S. Military board of visitors. Former signal officer. Obviously, we are dealing with a question of Critical Mass too and i want to go back to that because i want to follow up a little bi
Try to keep any kind of evaluation out of this. So the marine corps has done a bunch of different studies and research. They began with a actually, they began with the infantry officer course which they opened to women in 2012 and asked for volunteers. Women, if you want to come to try out the infantry officer course, youre invited to attend. At the same time that they were doing that, they also began developing a set of combat proxy tests. The combat proxy test, they were six largely upper body based i should say Upper Body Strength based proxy tests that they evaluated the performance of 409 women and 379 female marines against and what they found from this combat proxy test was that about well not about, but 66 of the very good performers were men and 34 were women, and then the highest performing categories, it was 92 were men and 8 were women. So this initial Screening Test that they developed showed that there was certainly a percentage of women that fell into the good and the ve
And a two plan to help people in afghanistan. For five days 300,000 people in West Virginia went without water after that toxic Chemical Spill. Congress now wants to find out just what happened. Now the u. S. Senate calling all parties involved to washington. Robert ray is where it all started. What is the latest . Dell, good morning, were on the elk river where the Chemical Spill occurred. On capitol hill this morning, starting at 10 00 am, the Senate Committee on environment and public works has been holding a meeting to try to find out what occurred nearly a month ago. This morning the senator from West Virginia came out and said that the regulation in West Virginia is soft, and said he is angry upset and embarrassed as we spoke to the panel. Some interesting notes as well, the secretary of state of West Virginia who just started speaking talked about public mistrust and the fact that the numbers have been changing and no one knows what is occurring. She said one day it is one chemi