Female soldiers eyed for combat
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The Army is negotiating with civilian leaders about eliminating a women-in-combat ban so it can place mixed-sex support companies within warfighting units, starting with a division going to Iraq in January.
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BAGHDAD -- They arrived early yesterday morning in a straight line of official-looking vehicles, about 125 men dressed in Iraqi Army fatigues and carrying standard-issue weapons. Aziza Abdul Jabbar and her relatives ran out of her home, believing the military had arrived to protect their village in Diyala Province.
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In much of Africa, the traditionally low status of girls puts many of them in danger and protects attackers.
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Science & environment: Flight goes ahead despite thermal shield cracks as two missions are headed by women for first time.
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American soldiers venture out of their bases into dangerous streets, confronting myriad of  unseen risks.
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Army soldiers are being issued new fatigues with easy-to-use Velcro openings and a redesigned camouflage pattern that can help conceal them as they move rapidly from desert to forest to city in places like Baghdad.
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Recruiters seek soldiers on a hot sport's battlefields.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton offered a new GI Bill of Rights for men and women in uniform, arguing that Democrats can do a better job of protecting and providing for U.S. troops than the Republican administration
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An army-appointed commission has recommended letting women into the military's last all-male bastions, extending equal opportunities to front-line infantry, armored corps and special forces, media reported on Monday.
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There are few situations that drive an airman to volunteer to be dressed as a woman and made to dance in public.
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Fadwa Hamdan belongs to the rare class of Muslim women who have signed up to become soldiers trained in Arabic translation.
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JERUSALEM - An Israeli Army committee is recommending all combat jobs be opened to women, security officials said yesterday - a change that, if adopted, would dramatically remake the front-line infantry, tank, and special forces units that are the military's last male bastions.
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Since their troops joined the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq almost two years ago, British commanders and politicians have depicted their soldiers as less combative, less abrasive and less trigger-happy in dealing ...
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Viedo game companies, trying to cope with declining sales, are intensifying efforts to lure women to gaming.
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U.S. soldiers in Iraq are fighting a tenacious insurgency while trying to win over a population and build a new nation. Switching back and forth demands a mental flexibility that taxes many soldiers.
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As the world marked international women's day on Thursday, some women in the small war-battered west African nation of Sierra Leone barely knew about it.
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WASHINGTON -- The Army for the first time is placing women in support units at the front lines of combat because of a shortage of skilled male soldiers available for duty in Iraq and is considering a repeal of the decade-old rule that prohibits women from being deployed alongside combat forces, according to Pentagon officials and military documents.