Restore the Military
Restore the Military podcast explains exactly what is broken in our military—and how Congress can actually fix it.
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Episode 2: The Truth About Women in Combat Units
June 25th, 2026 | 19 mins 54 secs
defense bill, defense policy, doug truax, military policy, military readiness, military reform, ndaa, will thibeau, women in combat
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.