Wednesday, March 14, 2012

AP IMPACT: In historic change, Army lets husband-and-wife soldiers live together in Iraq

When American soldiers get off duty in Iraq, the men usually return to their quarters, the women to theirs. But Staff Sgt. Marvin Frazier gets to go back to a small trailer with two pushed-together single beds that he shares with his wife.

In a historic but little-noticed change in policy, the U.S. Army is allowing scores of husband-and-wife soldiers to live and sleep together in the war zone _ a move aimed at preserving marriages, boosting morale and perhaps bolstering re-enlistment rates at a time when the military is struggling to fill its ranks five years into the fighting.

"It makes a lot of things easier," said Frazier, 33, a helicopter …

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