The Air Force and the Navy and the Army and the Marine Corps do different things. And for the most part, the Army, the majority of Army basic training is conducted single sex, and I think that's something a lot of people don't realize. All the combat units are connected to single sex training along the Marine Corps model. But I want to return to a point about the training evolution of a soldier. The commandant said it well.
Basic training is about cultural transformation.
We are taking a young civilian man or woman and introducing them to the culture of the profession of arms. And, as you can see, it's an intensely physical experience, as you saw from your report. And they weren't able to accomplish their mission. So there's good reasons why the Kassebaum-Baker report concluded what it did and why the Marine Corps stays with that model and the Army trains its combat troops separately as well. I don't, and I would strongly agree that physical standards for women should be improved.