.RubenGallego: Sen. Tommy Tuberville's closest run-in with our armed forces was losing the 2014 Military Bowl. Now he wants to tell women in the military what they can and cannot do with their bodies, while endangering them, their peers and our country.
In Iraq, I learned that even the best get killed, and that quality leadership can be the key difference between coming home dead and coming home alive.We worked in the worst parts of Iraq during the worst parts of the war. As a result, I lost some of my best friends.And Tuberville’s political grandstanding does nothing but put even more lives at risk.
I’m talking about the 18- and 19-year-olds who enlisted for the same reasons I did all those years ago: to give back to their country and to make something of themselves. We weren’t the ones making decisions. We weren’t the ones ordering Marines. We were the grunts. We went where we were told when we were told. And we turned to our noncommissioned officers and our commissioned officers for their guidance and orders. They’re the ones hurting most from Tuberville’s flagrant abuse of procedural power..
In my time in Washington, I’ve learned there are two types of politicians: those who serve this country and those who serve themselves. The hundreds of thousands of active-duty Marines currently left without leadership are 10 times the public servant Tuberville will ever be.
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