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.
>>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".<<