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  • Panetta ordered a review of the Air Force's decision not to fire the managers of a mortuary where two servicemen's remains were lost.

    What's News: World-Wide 2011

  • Though Buddle was never an ordained chaplain or reverend, nor authorized by state law to act in any such capacity, he officiated at servicemen's funerals, weddings and baptisms.

    Reggie Buddle 2010

  • The actions of the Israeli army in the occupied territories, as the recent book of a decade's worth of soldiers' testimonies by the servicemen's group Breaking the Silence has recently demonstrated, have not changed in the desire to control and disrupt ordinary Palestinian life on a daily basis.

    A Palestinian state is a moral right | Observer editorial 2011

  • I personally do not think that the Japanese have any business at all saying anything about our servicemen's conduct when they refuse to apologize for what they did to our servicemen during WW II.

    Japan’s Unwarranted Criticisms 2009

  • Social class (as measured by level of formal education) significantly affected servicemen's attitudes toward the corps.

    Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008

  • Comment sheets and censorship morale surveys from all theaters of operations record a multitude of similar warnings. 49 Although it is impossible to know if such threats reflected the writers 'intent or if they simply revealed servicemen's determination to keep their wives and sweethearts out of the Army, there is some evidence that servicemen did disown or divorce women who became Wacs.

    Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008

  • He then performed at the Help For Heroes servicemen's concert last Sunday (with "my mate Robbie Williams").

    Tom Jones 2010

  • In January 1943, WAAC Director Oveta Culp Hobby was concerned enough about servicemen's antagonism toward their female comrades to request an attitude survey.

    Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008

  • Although investigators did not examine Army policies (except to confirm that O'Donnell's charges were false), official attitudes certainly contributed to the perception that women were recruited as servicemen's companions if not mistresses.

    Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008

  • As much as it exposed hostility toward military women, this incident also revealed servicemen's dependence on the women they loved and were forced to leave behind.

    Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008

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