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[Rob <becidawa AT hctc.com>]

Hi folks,
Just read this one... war sucks and it's even worse when you don't have 
enough people...
I only quoted the first and last paragraphs of the story. The last one says 
it all.

Rob
becidawa AT hctc.com
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http://www.washtimes.com/national/20041213-124619-5345r.htm

>>Internal Army documents advocate changing Pentagon rules on mixed-sex 
units in a way that critics say will risk placing female soldiers in 
ground-combat situations.
The Nov. 29 briefing to senior Army officers at the Pentagon, presented as 
part of the service's sweeping transformation of its 10 war-fighting 
divisions, advocates scrapping the military's ban on collocation  the 
deployment of mixed-sex noncombat units alongside all-male combat brigades.
The briefing contained the phrase: "The way ahead: rewrite/eliminate the 
Army collocation policy." <<

>>The Times reported last week on an internal May 10 briefing that 
portrayed the Army as in a bind. The briefing states the Army does not have 
enough male soldiers to fill the FSCs if they were to collocate with combat 
brigades and thus required to be men-only.
All-male FSCs, the paper states, "creates potential long-term challenge to 
Army; pool of male recruits too small to sustain force".<<