老澳门开奖结果 Statement on Defense Secretary Mattis鈥 Speech at the Virginia Military Institute

September 28, 2018 11:30 am

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NEW YORK 鈥 Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis addressed Virginia Military Institute cadets this week and expressed skepticism about women serving in combat roles.

Gillian Thomas, senior staff attorney with the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Women鈥檚 Rights Project, issued the following response:

鈥淪ecretary Mattis鈥 equivocal statements about women鈥檚 aptitude for serving in combat roles were profoundly disrespectful to the brave trailblazers already excelling in such positions. What鈥檚 more, they raise serious concerns about his commitment to fully integrating women into formerly closed combat roles.

鈥淵esterday, a federal court denied the Department of Defense鈥檚 effort to dismiss our lawsuit on behalf of the Service Women鈥檚 Action Network that seeks to remove remaining obstacles to women鈥檚 full integration. We look forward to the next phase of the case, when DoD will be required to defend its practices of segregating Army and Marine Corps women into units with other women, and of segregating male and female recruits at Marines boot camp.鈥

SWAN鈥檚 statement is online .

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