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Kirsten Gillibrand: “Commanders do not have to meet quotas for the infantry…”

Featuring: Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Senate Hearing on Military Gender and Diversity Issues with Mr. Hegseth

Published | Video Starts at 04:00

Please give me an example. I get you're making these commanders quotas. To have a certain number of female infantry officers or infantry enlisted, and that disparages those women. Commanders do not have to meet 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. (04:00–04:08)

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Asserts that there are no quotas for women in the infantry.

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