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...noncombat troops will go to countries neighboring Iraq to assist in the event of a biochemical weapons attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rugby 1, Supervirus 0 | 3/30/2003 | See Source »

...LOST CAUSE G. Gordon Liddy (6), at the Virginia Military Institute, to its first graduating class to include women: "[Women] were trained separately, and they did noncombat work. That was vital, and they did it splendidly... When you are rising to higher ranks...put it back right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Finally, in Closing | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...global gathering to meet privately with Russian President Boris Yeltsin for four hours at F.D.R.'s Hudson River estate. The tete-a-tete was demonstrably friendly, with Yeltsin squeezing Clinton in a bear hug. With their urging, negotiators later agreed that about 2,000 Russian troops would play a noncombat supporting role in a multinational peacekeeping force in Bosnia. But nato insists that any Russian combat troops in Bosnia be placed under its control, a demand the Russians just as adamantly reject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: OCTOBER 22-28 | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...earlier study had already found a correlation between combat jobs and domestic violence. Troops trained to fight are more likely to batter children than their uniformed colleagues in noncombat jobs, according to a 1979 study of 985 cases of child abuse among Air Force personnel by the University of New Hampshire. "There's a spillover from what one does in one sphere of life in one role to what one does in other roles," says Murray Straus, a University of New Hampshire family-violence expert who worked on the study. "If you're in an occupation whose business is killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: The Living Room War | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

...sales pitch something like that persuaded the United Arab Emirates to order 390 of France's state-of-the-art AMX Leclerc battle tanks for an estimated $3.5 billion, beating out the American Abrams M1A2 and British Challenger 2. The deal, which also buys the U.A.E. 46 noncombat tanks and armored escort vehicles, represents a major victory for financially beset, state-owned Giat Industries and gives France a greater foothold in the lucrative Middle Eastern armaments market. Since the Gulf War, the Gulf Cooperation Council alone has placed $40 billion in military-hardware orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fully Loaded | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

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