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 PUBLIC LAW 105-85—NOV. 18, 1997 111 STAT. 1751 Forces, representatives from educational organizations, and leaders from civilian industry and other Government agencies. (3) Factors that define appropriate military job qualifications, including physical, mental, and educational factors. (4) Combat or other theater of war operations. (5) Organizational matters. (6) Legal matters. (7) Management. (8) Gender integration matters. (d) APPOINTMENTS.— (1) Members of the commission shall be appointed for the life of the commission. (2) A vacancy in the membership shall not affect the commission's powers, but shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. SEC. 562. DUTIES. (a) FUNCTIONS RELATING TO REQUIREMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS REGARDING CROSS-GENDER RELATIONSHIPS.—The commission shall consider issues relating to personal relationships of members of the Armed Forces as follows: (1) Review the laws, regulations, policies, directives, and practices that govern personal relationships between men and women in the Armed Forces and personal relationships between members of the Armed Forces and non-military personnel of the opposite sex. (2) Assess the extent to which the laws, regulations, policies, and directives have been applied consistently throughout the Armed Forces without regard to the armed force, grade, rank, or gender of the individuals involved. (3) Assess the reports of the independent panel, the Department of Defense task force, and the review of existing guidance on fraternization and adultery that have been required by the Secretary of Defense. (b) FUNCTIONS RELATING TO GENDER-INTEGRATED AND GENDER- SEGREGATED BASIC TRAINING. — (1) The commission shall review the parts of the initial entry training programs of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps that constitute the basic training of new recruits (in this subtitle referred to as "basic training"). The review shall include a review of the basic training policies and practices of each of those services with regard to genderintegrated and gender-segregated basic training and, for each of the services, the effectiveness of gender-integrated and gendersegregated basic training. (2) As part of the review under paragraph (1), the commission shall (with respect to each of the services) take the following measures: (A) Determine how each service defines gender-integration and gender-segregation in the context of basic training. (B) Determine the historical rationales for the establishment and disestablishment of gender-integrated or gender-segregated basic training. (C) Examine, with respect to each service, the current rationale for the use of gender-integrated or gender-segregated basic training and the rationale that was current as of the time the service made a decision to integrate, or to segregate, basic training by gender (or as of the time of the most recent decision to continue to use a gender-integrated format or a

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