and what i ve seen in my 38 years in the military, what s interesting is all the minor stuff goes away and i would consider this a minor thing. we have people serving in the military transgender and there hasn t been that many indicators of any kind of morale issues or team issues related to this. i agree to the point that yes, the military has led the way in many things but this is not a policy change that has to be done overnight. the president is being very, very careful it hasn t been done overnight. it actually started last summer, last june. this is a social experiment. this is a culture change and you don t throw a policy that s go having to a dramatic effect and when you talk about unit cohesiveness. i ve learned one thing from marines is there is disruption and basic training has become
intervention in iraq and afghanistan. what do you think they are thinking or rethinking at this point? well, certainly you have to make, take steps, affirmative steps if you see this sort of disillusionment and discontent or isolation from the rest of the troops. i mean the troops are there together. the great thing about the military is military cohesion and unit cohesiveness, if you have somebody removed like hasan, somebody has to pick up on that. the great irony of this, jamie, he is a psychiatrist. when we see somebody normally isolated or removed, what you do in the military send them to the chaplain or psychiatrist for counseling to get a little bit of help and find out what s going on. in this case we had a bad apple. the person is supposed to be helping our troops was turning against our troops. his conduct as you nighted earlier is outrageous. saying he is embarrassed and apologizes to allah for serving alongside u.s. armed forces. unthinkable for the families of the vict
bringing women into combat troops is inevitably going to change unit cohesiveness because sex is inevitable. aros is a powerful and irrational passion, and this is normal, natural, nobody is at fault for this. people forming sexual attachments and that s going to, i think, disrupt how soldiers relate when the sole mission should be destroying the enemy. joe sustik, do you think that america is ready for women in combat prisoners of war and stories they have to tell their families, do you think that america is ready for that, god forbid? i have a lot respect for what heather said. the reason, the pragmatic for mission readiness. when i was in the indian ocean and launched one night in the war in afghanistan, eight pilots, one was a young woman pilot. that night, she disregarded my
discount. it is powerful cultural norm to protect. not necessarily all cultural and sometimes can be biological and hardwired. that is something to worry about unit cohesiveness and how that works. the military is very good accommodating new things and working through these and making them merit-based. i hope that is indeed what will happen. the reality even though you needless brute strength than you did in the past you re still running around with that battle gear on and sometimes hundreds of pounds of stuff you have to carry with you in long periods of time in afghanistan especially and joint problems are a bigger problem than they are for men. you know what worries me? you know, women get captured and then of course raped and attacked physically. and then the whole question about whether or not, some guys got the hot for somebody else in his unit. and that breaks down unit cohesion. those are issues, especially the rape issue, i think all americans will have to deal with. if it i
bringing women into combat troops is inevitably going to change unit cohesiveness because sex is inevitable. aros is a powerful and irrational passion, and this is normal, natural, nobody is at fault for this. people forming sexual attachments and that s going to, i think, disrupt how soldiers relate when the sole mission should be destroying the enemy. joe sustik, do you think that america is ready for women in combat prisoners of war and stories they have to tell their families, do you think that america is ready for that, god forbid? i have a lot respect for what heather said. the reason, the pragmatic for mission readiness. when i was in the indian ocean and launched one night in the war in afghanistan, eight pilots, one was a young woman pilot. that night, she disregarded my