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Hegseth, who last year said women shouldn’t serve in combat roles, demonstrated gaps in his understanding of hiring practices for female enlistees, too.

The Navy announced in April that it expects to fall short of its recruitment goal this fiscal year by about 6,000 enlistees, DOD News reported.

There were often “huge divides” between Black officers and enlistees in how they perceived the racial situation at the time, Bailey said.

With an all-volunteer force, the pool of people personally affected is reduced to indoctrinated enlistees and their families, who are unlikely to speak out against any military undertaking.

Navy, arriving at the Navy Recruit Training Command center outside Chicago just before the 9/11 attacks, recalled Jimmy Ash, a fellow enlistee.