The Tuesday afternoon guests on CNN’s Inside Politics couldn’t fathom the possibility of women being further excluded from frontline combat roles due to heightened military fitness standards. This was in response to Secretary Pete Hegseth’s speech to top military leadership at Quantico, VA, in which he explained clear expectations for service member fitness and culture.
CNN anchor Brianna Keilar deceptively depicted how women were tested in comparison to men when it came to fitness standards by first mentioning Special Forces:
And I think that a lot of people in the military may point out that that's not something that is broadly happening […] It's not like women are being waved into these Combat Arms positions, right? There are no female Navy SEALs. There still have not been. There have been some women who have made it into the ranks of the Green Berets, into Army Rangers — not many —
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