[SecAmndmt]

Webb served under Reagan and was an R until 2006, according to Wikipedia. I believe he endorsed Trump? I get that he didn’t want to be disruptive by attending, which I respect.

I am mostly against women serving alongside men in close quarters or in combat. The policy change was step 1 in the feminization of the military. I am not an interventionist at all, but military needs to be focused on their mission, not social engineering.

[BroJoeK]

SecAmndmt: "Webb served under Reagan and was an R until 2006, according to Wikipedia. I believe he endorsed Trump? I get that he didn’t want to be disruptive by attending, which I respect."

Webb's political dimorphism drives me nuts, especially his reported uncalled-for rudeness to President Bush in November 2006.
So your post here moved me to look up Webb on Wiki and it reports something important I didn't know:
In 2003, seven months before the Iraq war began, Webb wrote in the Washington Post:

"...those who are pushing for a unilateral war in Iraq know full well that there is no exit strategy if we invade...
the Iraqis are a multiethnic people filled with competing factions who in many cases would view a U.S. occupation as infidels invading the cradle of Islam. …
In Japan, American occupation forces quickly became 50,000 friends.
In Iraq, they would quickly become 50,000 terrorist targets."

I'm certain those are just the words President Trump wishes he had said publicly at the time.
At the time, any such words I heard I didn't believe -- I thought, mistakenly it turned out, Bush & company were much too smart to suck us into yet another Viet Nam.

Turns out Webb & Trump were right and I was wrong about it.
And as a Democrat, even more than West Virginia's Joe Manchin, Webb is a fish out of water.
So, just maybe our New President will find a useful role for him?