House OKs Separate Military Training
From Times Wire Reports
The House voted to require the Army, Navy and Air Force to train male and female recruits separately. Only the Marine Corps trains male and female recruits separately. Men and women wouldn’t share barracks or boot camp training any longer under the bill. A final vote on the $270-billion defense bill was expected today. A bipartisan panel studied the matter last year after a sex scandal at an Army base in Maryland and urged the change.
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