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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe and Joanna Walters

Hegseth’s views on women in combat ‘flat-out wrong’, Senator Duckworth says

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Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois at the Democratic national convention in Chicago, on 20 August. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters

Democratic US Senator Tammy Duckworth, who lost both her legs after the army Black Hawk attack helicopter she was piloting was shot down during the US war in Iraq, on Sunday ramped up criticism of Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary who argues women shouldn’t be on the front line.

Pete Hegseth is the former Fox News host and soldier tapped by the president-elect to lead the Pentagon and oversee the largest military force in the world, but he is steeped in controversy.

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