The armed forces are exempt from the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act "for the purpose of ensuring the combat effectiveness".

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Combat effectiveness is based in large part on unit cohesion.

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For the JAGM contract, Lockheed provides a 27-month technology development program that includes design, test and demonstration of joint air-to-ground missile system that significantly enhances warfighters operational flexibility and combat effectiveness.

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If the use of the canal were denied, those ships would need to travel an extra 9, 000 miles around South America and would not be able to sustain combat effectiveness in the Pacific.

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Few capabilities are more indispensable to the future combat effectiveness of the Marines than those that enable troops and equipment to be rapidly and survivably transported from assault ships over the beach and around the battle zone.

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Their views are uniquely important because it is they who are responsible for the combat effectiveness and the welfare of those entrusted to their respective services, and it is they who are in closest contact with the men and women who comprise the armed forces today.

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He aggressively questioned the validity and effectiveness of archaic business practices and also offered refreshingly new alternatives to combat the inefficiencies.

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