Word: servicewomen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Over the past year, Green's lawyers have filed several motions challenging the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA) of 2000 and 2004, a law designed to close the loophole that enabled military contractors or the spouses of servicemen and servicewomen to escape punishment for crimes committed abroad. Green's lawyers (as well as several military-law experts) have maintained that MEJA was never intended to cover cases like his, but, in August, U.S. District Judge Thomas Russell upheld its constitutionality. Green has offered to re-enlist in the Army and face a court-martial, but that request has also been...
...first time they are suffering substantial casualties. Women troops make up nearly 15% of active-duty service members. Since 2003, 48 women have died in Iraq--just 2% of the total number of U.S. troops killed but far more than the 8 nurses killed out of 7,500 servicewomen in the Vietnam War. Three hundred have been wounded in Iraq. Few female troops are out of the line of fire. While military police patrol Baghdad with Iraqi cops who skirmish almost daily with insurgents, women clerks and cooks inside U.S. camps are vulnerable to rocket and mortar attacks by militants...
Fast forward to the present opposition to the war in Iraq. I am against the war in Iraq because of the terrible pain it is inflicting on our servicemen and servicewomen and their families. Sure, there are other valid reasons to be against the war in Iraq, but these concerns, often supported by over-hyped accounts, monopolize public attention to the exclusion of the issue of how it affects our troops. Ask a typical antiwar demonstrator why he or she opposes the war, and you hear things like “We’re killing the Iraqi people...
Fast forward to the present opposition to the war in Iraq. I am against the war in Iraq because of the terrible pain it is inflicting on our servicemen and servicewomen and their families. Sure, there are other valid reasons to be against the war in Iraq, but these concerns, often supported by over-hyped accounts, monopolize public attention to the exclusion of the issue of how it affects our troops. Ask a typical antiwar demonstrator why he or she opposes the war, and you hear things like “We’re killing the Iraqi people?...
Fraternization rules vary from service to service. An Army pamphlet states that "dating between soldiers of different rank is not harmful, and usually not improper." On the Navy's first coed carrier to include servicewomen, the U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, couples who confessed their love to the captain quietly received new assignments, without repercussion. The Air Force takes a different attitude. Although a manual allows that a marriage between an officer and enlisted person "is not, by itself evidence of misconduct," it reserves the right to take punitive action "based on prior fraternization...