Current Department of Defense regulations exclude women from ground combat, as well as from assignment to forward support units that "collocate [i.e., are embedded side by side] with units assigned a direct ground combat mission." Federal law requires that Congress be given 30 legislative days' advance notice of any change to this policy.

The provision agreed to on September 25, 2006 by the House and Senate conferees debating the final Defense Authorization bill rolls back the current Air Force and Navy regulations which had overturned 200+ years of tradition allowing military chaplains to pray in the name of Jesus and according to their faith requirements.

This problem description was originally posted on the Christian Coalition of America website.

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I think there is, or should be, a limit to how far we go for expediency to gain or retain political power. Military and anti-military action never equate with anti-defense or, by implication, anti-security. I, for one, think they don’t.

The current debate on financing military operations in Iraq ... stimulated yet again my 30-year search for a national security policy that liberal and progressive Americans can endorse.