User talk:Brice W

Hunter's amendment only codified existing Defense Department policy enacted during the Clinton Administration under SecDef Les Aspin. It would not have barred women from positions presently avialable to them. A review of the policy enacted in 1994 in the record indicates this is absolute fact. A brief summary on the policy itself and Hunter's efforts is avialable on the bipartisan House Armed Services Committee summary report for the FY2006 legislation (http://armedservices.house.gov/pressreleases/2005/FY06NDAAMarkupFINAL.pdf). Congress' primary responsibility is oversight and the Committee, behind Hunter's leaderhsip, undertook the responsiblity of analyzing the policy and ensuring it was being implemented. Women are prevented from joining forward operating units whose primary purpose is moving in on enemy positions, inluding infantry and artillery occupations.

Painting the picture that the goal was to "bar" women from positions currently avialable to them is not accurate.