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US female veterans: 'None of us have ever asked for special treatment'
Nadine Yousif
Women who served in the US military are pushing back against Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth's announcement that the requirements for combat roles will "return to the highest male standard", saying the standards have always been the same for men and women.
"None of us have ever asked for special treatment," Elisa Cardnell, who served in the US Navy for 11 years, told the BBC ...
"I am sick and tired of Pete Hegseth lying about women in the military and standards," former US Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath said in a video on Instagram.
"There has always been one standard for those jobs," she said. "There was never a man's standard or a woman's standard for flying a jet" ...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8525w2v5wo