Kirsten Gillibrand: “Commanders do not have to have a quota for women in the…”

“Quotas to have a certain number of female infantry officers or infantry enlisted. And that disparages the. Those women commanders do not have to. Be quotas for the infantry. Commanders do not have to have a quota for women in the infantry. That does not exist. It does not exist. And your statements are creating the impression that these exist because they do not. They are not quotas. We want the most lethal force.” (04:00–04:06)

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