Are the standards necessary??
What do you think?
Should our combat Marines be required to meet standards?
Or is that too 20th century for you?
You realize obama purged all of the officers that were against his radical transformation of the military, right?
No, those words are the author's, Otto Kreisher and amount to paraphrasing since they were not in quotes or directly attributed.
The general only stated that the article "was superb" and “When she brought up the point about the inability to recycle. … I went back to my folks and said, ‘we got to fix this.’ So we are,”
For her part, Santangelo did not question the standards, only the equality of opportunity to meet those standards.