Conversations about the best way to secure the Southern land border have been the principal focus of the media, Congress, and the administration for the last few months.

It is probably time to jettison the conventional wisdom that visa overstays make up about 40 percent of the illicit flow.

To put that number into context we only apprehended 310,000 unique individuals crossing the land border illegally last year.

there has got to be some sort of carrot.

Anything that was well-intended, but, in fact, then breeds resentment, right, anything that makes it look like women are getting a break or getting easy then breeds resentment.

We need more integration, not more segregation, because that builds resentment.

I still believe, to this day, that somehow we are inculcating a culture of gender bias from the very beginning when we are training.

I want to really encourage you and I want to partner with you because I know those are potentially hard conversations.

I think that is really something that we need to be paying a little bit more attention to.

I have spent a lot of time thinking about the 'Lord of the Flies' sort of culture that we all experienced at the academies.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks, ladies, for your courage to speak to us today and speak publicly.