when we think about bringing women into an infantry unit, we are thinking you are going to replace john rambo with joe rambo or whenever and shall never keep. that is simply not the case. a lot of women would be able to perform at that same level. and they certainly well enough to have been a value add overseas. getting to that discussion about cohesion and what does it take to build cohesion. we did focus in the unit on pasture and cohesion. you are leaving on translating a bunch of 18, 19-year-old kids who try to be squared away, doing their job and make up what is cool. young soldiers are emulating squad leaders. what it means to be a good soldier and those young soldiers want to emulate their altars and following their path. we worked at a really high level. going to the idea of working in a business environment i think at least the stress my unit was put under in afghanistan was much higher than the stress he would find in a civilian occupation. there are times when individuals were unable to keep up. we had a number of soldiers that go home on r&r and it wouldn't come back. they were sc

think in the popular debate, it's always we're thinking, oh you're going to replace, you know, john rambo with jill rambo. and she could never, you know, keep up. but that's simply not the case. right? i think that a lot of women would be able to perform at that same level. at least certainly well enough to have been a value add overseas. getting to some of that discussion about cohesion and what did it take to build cohesion. you're leading a bunch of 18-year-old, 19-year-old kids and you try to make being squared away, you know, doing your job, make that what it is to be cool, right? so these young soldiers emulating their squad leaders looking up to them they're role models for them. and you make being physically fit, competent at your job, what it means to be a good soldier. and i think we worked at a really high level. now, going to the idea is combat different than working in a business environment. i do think that at least the stress that my unit was put under in afghanistan was much higher than the stress you'd find in, you know, civilian occupation. and so we were really tested.