Attempting to undercut President-elect Trump’s nomination of Pete Hegseth as defense secretary, Wednesday’s Morning Joe misled on the key issue of the physical fitness of female soldiers.
After playing a clip of Hegseth expressing his opposition to women in combat, and proposing that the military adopt the same gender-neutral fitness standards that were in place in 1995, the show brought on NBC national security editor David Rohde, who said:
I think clips like the one you played will raise major issues. There are women in combat. And women who engage in ground combat have to take physical tests. Can they pick up and carry another soldier who is wounded is one of them.
Rohde’s statement implied that female soldiers would be capable to “pick up and carry” a wounded soldier just like a male soldier can. That’s not true.
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