He explained the general's ease with making the comments, "they are infantry men, they're soldiers, this is how soldiers act when they're letting off steam".

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Two days before his June 12 arrival from Islamabad, Pakistan handed over to India the bodies of a young Indian infantry lieutenant and his five men.

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Whether men serving in the infantry will accept women as peers is another open question.

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Both men and women were skeptical about putting females in infantry units, however.

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It was a flame that in 2003, with men such as Colonel James Hickey, who was the second brigade commander, fourth infantry division, the brigade that captured Saddam Hussein, one of my dear friends and one of my former bosses who is here tonight.

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