reporter: women still can t be assigned to ground combat team, but for years commanders have been getting around pentagon policy by attaching them to units. the marine corps had to impose a time limit so in afghanistan, every six weeks, the female engagement teams go back to a big base for one night, then reattach with their combat unit for another 45 days. just a nonsensical policy, and we ve been living with it for nine years. and it does confuse the on the ground commanders. reporter: lori manage runs the women in the military project and says she s seen more changes than all the years since world war ii. in these war, women are shooting and killing and they have not done that as members of the military at any time in the past. as jobs expanded, so did the military s ability to accommodate a woman s personal life.
certain exercises and then the diet. now, the diet is the interesting part. staple diet mainly len tills because they could only eat what was available 2,000 years ago. so think about what was available. len tills, beans, berries. and gladiator typically were slaves that wanted to be freed or let s say, rather, poor people who wanted to earn some money. so the diet at that time so then they put these gentlemen in a camp for two months. they were only allowed to eat this diet. and what they reported was that they felt so good. and what was really interesting is after strenuous exercise, sometimes eight hours a day, they had no muscle pain after eating the lentils, the beans, the berries, the mushrooms. the idea initially for the program to put these guys through, what were they trying to get at? to re-enact the time of gladiators. like you spoke earlier about somebody re-enacting world war ii. the idea was let s recreate for