Tom Cotton: There Is Nothing that Pete Hegseth or Kirsten Gillibrand or I Can Do To Make an Artillery Shell Weigh Less than 100 Pounds

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COTTON: “When I talk about women in combat, that's too broad. Women have been in combat for many years as pilots or mechanics or what have you. We're talking specifically about women in ground combat jobs, like the infantry, the artillery, special forces. Those have irreducible physical demands. There's nothing that Pete Hegseth or Kirsten Gillibrand or I can do to make an artillery shell weigh less than 100 pounds or a tank round --“
DOOCY: “Sure.”
COTTON: “-- weigh less than 50 pounds, or a -- or a fully grown soldier with full combat load weigh less than usually 250, even 300 pounds. We have to have high and gender-neutral standards to ensure that our troops are going to be safe and they're going to be fit to fight.”