Some 14,000 or more service members have been discharged under the law, including many hundreds if not thousands with critical skills in foreign languages, military intelligence, counterterrorism, weapons development and military medicine.
Masculine language, like military jargon, frames masculine thought and masculine action.
They wanted airtight language against military intervention, but they were willing to throw in on the political transition.
About 80 did, but some from both parties emerged from the briefing convinced that the draft language authorizing military action would need to be tightened.
The atmosphere in New York has been soured not just by Russian resistance to any language on military force but more importantly by the presentation on Monday of the UN inspectors' report on the 21 August chemical weapons attacks.
I stand by my claim here: the language the military uses shifts and changes; but Reuters does indicate the number of ships in the region is unprecedented.
Other popular subjects included travel, foreign languages, history, military subjects and biography.
Because not enough soldiers speak foreign languages, the military has had to rely on more than 10,000 civilian contract linguists, many local Afghans and Iraqis of widely differing abilities.
The particular use of the Russian language suggests that military aid has shifted to military personnel operating equipment in direct combat.
The dialogue fuses technological jargon, macho military language, corporate argot and video-game references into a robotic but pungently slangy language that suggests NASA headquarters has been taken over by drunken frat boys.
