You. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), retired Army National Guard veteran Donald Trumpdefense minister election Pete Hegseth Regarding his statements on Wednesday women should not serve in military combat roles.

“I would ask him, ‘Where do you think I lost my legs? Duckworth in a bar fight?’ “I’m pretty sure I was in a fight when it happened,” he said. CNN‘s Kaitlan Collins.

Duckworth, who lost both legs when her Black Hawk helicopter was attacked during the Iraq War in 2004, referred to Trump’s election: Fox News The announcer, who also served in the Army National Guard, was described as “dangerous” and “completely unqualified” in a statement early in the day.

Hegseth, just days before the president-elect announced he was running for the defense secretary position. He narrated the “Shawn Ryan Show” He said women in combat roles “do not make us more effective” and “make the fight more complicated.”

He later stated that his comments were down to women in “physical, labour-intensive” military roles.

“I talk about things that require strength as a differentiator. Pilots? “Give me a female pilot all day long, I have no problem with that,” he said. Fox News nominated anchor Shocked critics, including Trump’s allies.

Duckworth told Collins that Hegseth showed “an absolute lack of experience” and a “lack of suitability for the job.”

“Our army cannot go to war without our female soldiers,” she said.

“This isn’t the Revolutionary War, where there was some kind of line in the sand and, you know, the fight was on one side and the rest of us could stay behind, and this isn’t war.”

Duckworth added that the comments show how “out of touch” Hegseth is with modern warfare.