Word: combatative
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...ever to serve on its ocean-going vessels (other than a transport or hospital ship). The service had been barred by law from so using women until this summer, when a federal district court ruled that sex cannot be used as a criterion to prevent volunteers from serving on combat-related vessels. To comply with this ruling, the Navy is refitting the Vulcan and four other support ships to take on 16 female officers and 375 enlisted women. Fifteen more ships are expected to be remodeled in the next five years, and it is estimated that women will constitute...
...women were mobilized during World War II and some flew bombers and drove tanks, today's 4 million-strong armed forces contain only 10,000 women. Even Israel, which has used women as soldiers from the beginning, has only 5% and keeps virtually all of them out of combat...
...integrated into the regular structure of the armed services have women become that the WAVES and WAFS have been disbanded and the WACS are about to be. The only remaining restrictions on women warriors, all of whom receive combat training, are the 1948 statute forbidding them to serve on combat vessels and planes and the formal Army policy barring them from combat branches such as infantry and armor...
...trying to combat the attitude of a lot of faculty members who seem to think we're going to move General Education courses into the Core. That was not the original intent of Dean Rosovsky," Frankel said...
...Geez," Clark countered, "that makes what I just said sound awful. But I do prefer the Don Quixote image of single combat; although, of course, it's part of a larger team effort. Ideally, a perfect play for an offensive lineman is to knock down every guy on the other side of the ball--almost like a broken-field...