Congressman calls Navy secretary a greater threat to Marines than ISIS

Apr 2, 2018 9:39 AM PDT

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Representative Duncan Hunter has declared that Ray Mabus, the Secretary of the Navy, is "a greater threat to the Marine Corps than ISIS" because of his efforts to open combat roles to women in spite of a study conducted by the Marines that indicated that warfighting effectiveness would suffer as a result.

"The reason the military is there is not to be a transgender, corporate organization," Hunter told POLITICO, referring to the Pentagon's plans to allow transgender service members to serve openly. "The military is there to execute American policy overseas, protect our allies and kill our enemies. It's not a corporation. We're not all treated equal."

Hunter is most tweaked about Mabus' memo to the Corps directing them to gender-integrate boot camp and to lose the word "man" from military job titles.

"These are long lasting," Hunter said. "These changes that they're making are not thought out, they're not researched, they've not been debated. The American public has no idea what's going on … It's going to get people killed."