Will Thibeau
Co-Host of Restore the Military
Will Thibeau has hosted two Episodes.
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Episode 2: The Truth About Women in Combat Units
June 25th, 2026 | 19 mins 54 secs
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In 2015, the Marine Corps conducted a landmark nine-month study on gender-integrated combat units and found that all-male squads outperformed integrated squads on 69 percent of tasks — yet the Obama administration opened all combat positions to women anyway. A decade later, Congress is finally attempting to legislate sex-neutral fitness standards into permanent law, and this episode breaks down the data, the political decisions that overrode it, and what's at stake in the current fight.
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Episode 1: The Battle Over Merit in America's Military
June 23rd, 2026 | 14 mins 58 secs
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The episode opens with a pointed argument: the Supreme Court's 2023 Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard ruling struck down race-conscious admissions in higher education, but the service academies have continued operating under identity-based admissions frameworks using an untested "national security" rationale. Doug and Will argue the legal exposure is real and growing — and that it's better to fix it through statute now than have a court opinion force the issue later.