EXCERPT: " ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Anita Blair,
President of the Independent Women's Forum and Chairman of the
Congressional Commission on Military Training and Gender-Related
Issues, sharply criticizes current military training policies in the
Commission's final report released by the House and Senate Armed
Services Committees yesterday. In the report, Blair and two other
commissioners concluded, "Not only is there evidence of serious
problems with gender-integrated training, there is also substantial
evidence that gender-separate training produces superior results." The
Army, Navy and Air Force mix male and female recruits together in the
same basic training units. Blair and her colleagues found that the
services adopted gender-integrated training policies not for any
military purpose, but purely for political and public relations
reasons. "Gender-integrated training imposes many additional costs,"
says Blair, "but produ..."

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