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Pete Hegseth: “The evidence was overwhelming. The amount of injuries that…”

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Talk about that study, Pete, because it was extensive and it was incontrovertible. And yet somehow or another, it was roundly ignored. It was mandated. It was. It was extensive. It was incontrovertible. The evidence, The evidence was overwhelming. The amount of injuries that females had... women were injured at much higher rates. and this was a unit of 400 men doing extensive field exercises versus a unit of 300 men and 100 women integrated in those field exercises. And women were. (40:59–41:12)

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Asserts that evidence showed women in military units were injured at higher rates.

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