Update:

For those who like to drill down into the why’s, here is a link to the (660 page) Conference Report on the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2010, with the Joint Explanatory Statement of the Committee of the Conference.

For example here is one item, at page 83 (or 134 if viewing .pdf in Adobe/Nitro).

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