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 PUBLIC LAW 105-85—NOV. 18, 1997 111 STAT. 1753 (M) Compare the experiences, policies, and practices of the armed forces of other industrialized nations regarding gender-integrated training with those of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. (N) Review, and take into consideration, the current practices, relevant studies, and private sector training concepts pertaining to gender-integrated training. (0) Assess the feasibility and implications of conducting basic training (or equivalent training) at the company level and below through separate units for male and female recruits, including the costs and other resource commitments required to implement and conduct basic training in such a manner and the implications for readiness and unit cohesion. (P) Assess the feasibility and implications of requiring drill instructors for basic training units to be of the same sex as the recruits in those units if the basic training were to be conducted as described in subparagraph (O). (c) FUNCTIONS RELATING TO BASIC TRAINING PROGRAMS GENERALLY. —The commission shall review the course objectives, structure, and length of the basic training programs of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. The commission shall also review the relationship between those basic training objectives and the advanced training provided in the initial entry training programs of each of those services. As part of that review, the commission shall (with respect to each of those services) take the following measures: (1) Determine the current end-state objectives established for graduates of basic training, particularly in regard to— (A) physical conditioning; (B) technical and physical skills proficiency; (C) knowledge; (D) military socialization, including the inculcation of service values and attitudes; and (E) basic combat operational requirements. (2) Assess whether those current end-state objectives, and basic training itself, should be modified (in structure, length, focus, program of instruction, training methods or otherwise) based, in part, on the following: (A) An assessment of the perspectives of operational units on the quality and qualifications of the initial entry training graduates being assigned to those units, considering in particular whether the basic training system produces graduates who arrive in operational units with an appropriate level of skills, physical conditioning, and degree of military socialization to meet unit requirements and needs. (B) An assessment of the demographics, backgrounds, attitudes, experience, and physical fitness of new recruits entering basic training, considering in particular the question of whether, given the entry level demographics, education, and background of new recruits, the basic training systems and objectives are most efficiently and effectively structured and conducted to produce graduates who meet service needs. (C) An assessment of the perspectives of personnel who conduct basic training with regard to measures required to improve basic training. 39-194O-97-22:QL3Part2

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