Jackie Speier: “The Freedom class is, in my view and in the view of many, terribly unreliable, with the Little Rock, Detroit, and Sioux…”

And I would also say, Under Secretary, while you are doing that education with women who are in boot camp, we really need it for the men as well, because, truly, we keep losing sight of the fact that there are two in this process.

Do you think that this is going to discourage women from serving in the military?

It pains me, as I am sure it pains many of us, to hear these stories, but they are real stories.

We must restore local control to the community.