Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difficult metamorphosis began in earnest last week when the Israelis completed their withdrawal from two enclaves of Palestinian self-rule, one surrounding Jericho in the West Bank, the other covering most of the Gaza Strip. In both areas, civilian affairs were turned over to P.L.O. control, as was public order and safety. To replace the occupying forces, some 3,000 Palestinian troops, arriving from exile mostly in Egypt, Iraq and Jordan, were put to work as soldiers and policemen -- a force that is to eventually grow...
...advantage of the help, and the worst abusers don't participate. Researcher Peter Neidig, whose company, Behavioral Science Associates in Stony Brook, New York, is conducting the Army survey, believes similar levels of domestic abuse exist in the other services. While Neidig believes the Army is ahead of the civilian world in confronting the issue, Army officials admit they are only starting to understand the extent of the problem. "We were being very reactionary," explains Delores Johnson, who heads the service's program to combat such abuse. Rather than trying to prevent it, the Army emphasized medical and legal help...
Gail McGinn, a top Pentagon personnel official, says the military family's nomadic existence contributes to the problem. Most move every three years, ripping the military family from the support network of relatives and friends that civilian families count on when times get tough. The long absences of the breadwinner -- on lengthy cruises, battlefield exercises or peacekeeping missions -- add to familial stress. The military drawdown, from 2.2 million troops in 1987 to 1.5 million in 1997, compounds the problem. Soldiers and sailors who once dreamed of a secure, 20-year career and a handsome pension now find themselves facing...
While many civilian domestic-violence experts praise the strides the military has made in dealing with the problem, they say follow-through is often lacking. A Pentagon investigation last year surveyed 13 Pentagon prisons to see how many were complying with a 1982 federal law obligating them to alert crime victims, including abused spouses, when perpetrators are released. Not a single one was. In a 1990 case, a Kentucky woman, Andrea Turner, was murdered by her husband three days after his release from a military prison. The killer, who had been locked up for abusing her, said he shot...
...chief of Air Force Magazine, noted that in the first draft there were 49 photos of Japanese casualties, against only three photos of American casualties. By his count there were four pages of text on Japanese atrocities, while there were 79 pages devoted to Japanese casualties and the civilian suffering, from not only the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki but also conventional B-29 bombing. The Committee for the Restoration and Display of the Enola Gay now has 9,000 signatures of protest. The Air Force Association claims the proposed exhibition is "a slap in the face...