i mean, the combat roles essentially, and that means offensive ground operations units such as infantry, artillery, armored units, things like that. and increase of course a vacuum that women cannot reach a certain plateau and then it's hard to get promoted after that because can they can't get any of those other experiences. >> host: would you say we should let them? and what would be -- what we do it by saying we are going to put different standards for women who want to move forward on those? or first of all, would you allow the women to do that and brought in their ability to have the combat experience? and what kind of help or what kind of changes would you make so that you can ensure that some of the women can be in those ranks? >> guest: as you said the dod is looking at those issues right now and then you're going to be able to assess the best way of thinking of the women can get integrated into the social but from the perspective i think the women are already sitting in some of those capabilities and are capable of meeting those missions in any front such as the female engageme

all the combat roles essentially and that means offensive grounds units such as infantry, artillery, armored units and things like that. and it creates of course a vacuum that women cannot -- they reach a certain plateau and it is hard to get promoted after that because they can't get any of those other experiences. >> host: so would you say we should change it and what would we do it by saying we are going to have different standards for women that want to move forward? first of all would you? would you allow women to do some of that? would you broaden their ability to have combat experience and what kind of -- what kind of help or what kind of changes would you make so that you could ensure that we so more him and could be in those ranks? >> guest: as you said dod is looking at those issues right now in they are going to be able to assess the best way of really thinking if women can get integrated into those roles but from a personal perspective i think women are already serving in some of those capabilities and are capable of meeting those missions on many fronts such as the female

i mean, combat roles, essentially, and that means offensive ground operation units such as infantry, tillery, armored units, things like that. and it creates, of course, a vacuum that women can reach a certain plateau, and it's very hard to get promoted after that because they can't get any of those experiences. >> host: would you say we should let them? should we change it? and what would be saying we're going to put different standard for women who want to move forward on those? how would you -- first of all, would you? the would you allow women to do some of that? would you broaden their ability to have combat experience, and what kind of help or what kind of change would you make so that you could insure that at least some women could be in those ranks? >> guest: yeah. well, as you said, dod is looking at those issues right now, and be they're going to be able to assess the best way of really thinking if women can get integrated into those roles. from a personal perspective, i think women are capable of meeting those i missions on many fronts such as the female engagement team or

unit of the 104th airborne -- airborne division, and there were trying to lock down the border between afghanistan and pakistan. these areas have seen no native soldiers at all. this was the parachute infantry regiment, occupying two mountaintops, one of these border districts. the american and afghan troops would just find a good vantage point, and start looking around in the valley and on the road, looking into any compounds that they could see to get a sense of who lives here, what is the normal pattern of life, are there any major signs of the taliban, and if it is there, can we draw them out? and for two days in april we were there. the villagers sauce and the taliban launched a couple of rockets. nobody was hurt on either side. but this would be the first foray into a long-neglected district, crossing over into afghanistan. >> see that there is the draw right there. >> this area -- we are here basically to stop the incoming traffic. certain traffic coming from pakistan into afghanistan, this is kind of their first place here, where we fight them off and keep them from going farther into the country. there is a route that comes through these areas, coming from pakistan into afghanistan

day, russell was elevated to infantry battalion commander, one of the youngest in world war ii and served for the remainder of the campaigned. he commanded one of two units who landed in japan for occupation. he provided protection for the teams covered the atomic bomb sites in nagasaki. he was then returned to the u.s. and was assigned to the staff officer's basic school in quantico, virginia, where he served as instructor. in 1949 russell was assigned to the first marine division korea where he served as commander, frontline infantry about a tanyon for nine months and served as the korean marine brigade for eight months. when he returned to the u.s. he was assigned to the marine corps research and development staff in quantico, virginia. in 1952, russell was assigned as staff u.s. european command, paris, france. that year he returned to headquarters in washington, d.c., and later transferred to quantico assigned as director of the amphibious warfare school, was part of the eighth infantry regimen. he went to guantanamo bay, cuba, during the early days of difficulty with cuba. he was transferred to headquarters marine in washington, d.c., where he was