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‘Greatest warriors’: Hegseth rails against ‘misconstrued’ narrative that he’s against women in military

by December 10, 2024
December 10, 2024

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, praised women in the military as some of the ‘greatest warriors’ after critics took issue with comments he made about women not being fit to serve in combat roles. 

‘I also want an opportunity here to clarify comments that have been misconstrued, that I somehow don’t support women in the military, some of our greatest warriors, our best warriors out there are women,’ he told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Monday. 

Female service members ‘love our nation, want to defend that flag, and they do it every single day around the globe. I’m not presuming anything,’ he added. 

‘But after President Trump asked me to be his Secretary of Defense, should I get the opportunity to do that, I look forward to being a secretary for all our warriors, men and women, for the amazing contributions they make in our military.’

Hegseth will spend this week meeting with senators on Capitol Hill to court the 50 votes he needs to secure the Cabinet level position. 

In a November 7 episode of the Shawn Ryan podcast, which aired mere days before Hegseth, a former Fox News employee, was tapped to serve as Defense Secretary, the nominee said: ‘I’m straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles.’

Hegseth asserted that women serving in combat roles ‘hasn’t made us more effective, hasn’t made us more lethal’ and ‘has made fighting more complicated.’

Hegseth noted that he was not necessarily advocating for making the change right now, commenting; ‘Imagine the demagoguery in Washington, D.C., if you were actually making the case for, you know, ‘We should scale back women in combat.’’

‘As the disclaimer for everybody out there,’ he added, ‘we’ve all served with women and they’re great, it’s just our institutions don’t have to incentivize that in places where … over human history, men are more capable.’

He said, ‘I love women service members who contribute amazingly,’ but asserted that ‘everything about women serving together makes the situation more complicated and complication in combat means casualties are worse.’

He also criticized the upper echelons of military leadership for changing standards and prioritizing filling diversity quotas above combat effectiveness. He pointed to a 2015 study by the Marine Corps that found that integrated male-female units did ‘drastically worse’ in terms of combat effectiveness than all-male units.

‘Between bone density and lung capacity and muscle strength, men and women are just different,’ he said. ‘So, I’m ok with if you maintain the standards just 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. What has happened is the standards have lowered.’

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