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		<title>Women in Direct Ground Combat? Not Quite Yet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene M Iskra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a decided lack of fanfare, the Pentagon announced a new assignment policy for women, set to take effect on May 14. The so-called collocation rules have been set aside, a policy that had been in effect since 1993 when Title 10, sections 6015 and 8549 were repealed, allowing women to serve in combat aircraft [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=73668&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gender-Blind Fleet, Huh?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 10:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene M Iskra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Navy Uniform Board is messing around with uniforms again…this time to make the uniforms “gender blind.&#8221; In other words, the women will now be wearing men’s uniforms and covers. Won’t that be swell? This is in response to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus’ commitment to service where opportunities are gender blind, according to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=71577&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Los Angeles Times&#8217; Atrocity Photos: Truth Teller, or Newspaper Seller?</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/04/24/los-angeles-times-atrocity-photos-truth-teller-or-newspaper-seller/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene M Iskra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read about another reprehensible incident that has come to light after two years. Photos of soldiers from the 82nd Airborne, based at Fort Bragg, N.C., posing with body parts of dead suicide bombers in Afghanistan, were recently published by the Los Angeles Times. The troops were stationed in Afghanistan in 2010. Americans have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=72242&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sexual Assault Awareness Month&#8230;Revisited</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/04/16/sexual-assault-awareness-month-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene M Iskra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about the Navy’s plan for a stand-down to “communicate the service’s policy of zero tolerance for sexual assault while encouraging sailors to work harder to prevent attacks.” I had indicated a bit of skepticism about the leadership’s buy-in of the program… The day after my blog was published I was invited [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=71115&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get Women in the Picture!</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/04/11/get-women-in-the-picture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene M Iskra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received an email from a doctoral student at the University of West Florida who is writing her dissertation on women military careerists born between 1940 and 1955. As a result, she has spent a good amount of time talking to retired service women, as well as visiting the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=70685&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>21st Century Fragging: Sexual Assault</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/04/06/21st-century-fragging-sexual-assault/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene M Iskra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Navy Times reports this week that “Navy leaders are calling for educational standdowns in April to communicate the service’s policy of zero tolerance for sexual assault while encouraging sailors to work harder to prevent attacks.” It&#8217;s part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, an effort to raise awareness of the issue and what can be done [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=70683&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Kind of PT: Female Vets Running&#8230;for Congress</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/03/21/a-new-kind-of-pt-female-vets-running-for-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene M Iskra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four female veterans are making history by running for Congress this year. While women make up more than 50% of the population, they are severely underrepresented in public office. It&#8217;s about time that started changing. A few weeks ago, I received an email from Colonel Martha McSally (USAF, ret) announcing her intention to run for Arizona’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=69049&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women’s History Month: You Go, Girls!</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/03/15/womens-history-month-you-go-girls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene M Iskra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about Women’s History Month since March began. Then, I saw that March 8 was International Women’s Day, an event that has taken place worldwide since the early 1900s. According to its website, it began amid the turbulence of the industrial age when women started realizing their oppressed and subordinate status. They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=69047&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on Ship-Naming Controversies: About the USS Gabrielle Giffords</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/27/more-on-ship-naming-controversies-about-the-uss-gabrielle-giffords/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene M Iskra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) will be named for Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), who recently resigned from Congress so she can concentrate on healing after an assassination attempt last year. This news was announced some time ago, and though I have been on record saying I think more ships should be named for women, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=67726&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Long Time Coming &#8212; And Still A Long Way To Go</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/13/a-long-time-coming-and-still-a-long-way-to-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene M Iskra</dc:creator>
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	<mediaCredit>Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Brian Goodwin/</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Then-Rear Adm. Michelle Howard talks to the crew of the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan upon its return to Norfolk following its deployment to Haiti to help in the wake of the 2010 earthquake there. ]]></mediaCaption>
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