Senators scold Mabus for causing drama with Marine Corps

"Mabus spoke after a vitriolic Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on opening all combat jobs to women, at which Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Ark., slammed Mabus for initially ordering boot camp to become gender integrated.

“I’ve been on this committee for a year and I don’t think I’ve seen a more outrageous or ill-advised order from the service secretary to tell the Marines that they’re going to take boot camp — which has been honed and put together for the benefit of the American people over decades — and you’re going to order them to give a detailed plan in 15 days?” Sullivan said. “Is that even remotely possible? Why did you issue such an order when nobody on this committee thinks that it was remotely possible to integrate boot camp?”

Sullivan and other lawmakers also sharply criticized Mabus for his comments last year downplaying the Marine Corps’ months-long gender integration study, which found that mixed-gender teams didn't perform as well as all-male teams and were more likely to be injured."

I feel better already.