BAGHDAD - When American soldiers get off duty in Iraq, the men usually return to their quarters, the women to theirs. But Staff Sgt. Marvin Frazier gets to go back to a small trailer with two pushed-together single beds that he shares with his wife.
In a historic but little-noticed change in policy, the Army is allowing scores of husband-and-wife soldiers to live and sleep together in the war zone — a move aimed at preserving marriages, boosting morale and perhaps bolstering re-enlistment rates at a time when the military is struggling to fill its ranks five years into the fighting.
"It makes a lot of things easier," said Frazier, 33, a helicopter maintenance supervisor in the 3rd Infantry Division. "It really adds a lot of stress, being separated. Now you can sit face-to-face and try to work out things and comfort each other."
Long-standing Army rules barred soldiers of the opposite sex from sharing sleeping quarters in war zones. Even married troops lived only in all-male or all-female quarters and had no private living space.
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Awesome. It makes a hell of a lot of sense, especially on the larger FOBs where everyone has their own room anyways.
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People were doing love visits anyway. General order 1 needs to be rewritten. I mean if you let troops drink a beer or two maybe they'll quit huffing.EvilCouch wrote:Awesome. It makes a hell of a lot of sense, especially on the larger FOBs where everyone has their own room anyways.
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Didn't some Colonel die of huffing?Silverback wrote:People were doing love visits anyway. General order 1 needs to be rewritten. I mean if you let troops drink a beer or two maybe they'll quit huffing.EvilCouch wrote:Awesome. It makes a hell of a lot of sense, especially on the larger FOBs where everyone has their own room anyways.
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