I realize that that's the kind of interaction that strikes fear into the hearts of people who are worried about what James Webb once called the roar of hormones. But, in fact, in units, that's critical time to prepare for the next field deployment, to joke about mistakes that have been made in the past. Let me get Mr. Hillen's response to that. I think it's a step in the right direction. You know, the training of a soldier, a sailor, an airman, a Marine is an evolutionary process.
Basic training is only a small component of that.
It's that initial component. You take an 18 year old out of society and you subject them to unnatural stresses in a cauldron and you teach him a whole new ethos, a new code of conduct, a new social construct, it's a very difficult time. It's a very physical time, as you saw. And while we recognize it's eminently fair for men and women to compete separately in many sports that they play together, we've also recognized there some of those same imperatives that drive them during this critical time, and they can learn better and learn from each other, as I think the clip showed, when they're measured by their own standards. They'll be mixed later in training.