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Vol. 15 · No. 113 · Tuesday, 22 September 2026

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Study finds most Infantrymen want females in their platoons

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THE PENTAGON — A new gender integration study set to be released this week found that nearly 96 percent of infantrymen in the Army and Marine Corps would be "very excited" to have women integrated into their units, especially during combat deployments, Duffel Blog has learned.

"Naturally there were some patterns we saw after issuing the surveys," Maj. Rodrick Hamill, a spokesman for the Pentagon, told reporters. "Almost all soldiers who described themselves as 'pro female' insisted that the women inducted be in top physical condition, and disease-free."

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