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Black people do not require highly specialized surgery or special dispensation on PT tests.

I agree that women are serving well--but, if you think that it does not come with additional medical and social issues, you are very naïve.  For example, a platoon leader who deployed to Iraq and had to return home (after all the training in preparation) because she was pregnant.  This is expensive and dangerous--as she was replaced by a platoon leader who had not been trained for this highly specialized and quite dangerous job.  Fortunately, her replacement was a great manager--but this is an "unintended consequence" of women in the military which is costly.  The same with women on ships.  
There are also the issues of sexual harassment and assault.  It should not exist, but lots of money is being spent on this, as well.  And, yes, some of it does come down to "he said, she said."

Again, do gay people require surgery?  Do they require special PT tests?  How many additional funds are spent on this?

This is not a "show".  This is real life, real people, and real danger.  [b]The DOD needs to spend money on preparedness[/b]--not transgender surgery and more social training than we already have.  A company commander out in the desert does not need to deal with this.  There is a lot more to war than fire fights.

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The DOD had said in May that this was a non-issue. The President is overriding his generals. It is his right, but it goes against his campaign rhetoric and is timely to curry favor with the hard right who are blasting Trump on the Sessions issue.[/quote]

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