of a year-long pentagon survey of troops will serve as the roadmap. transsexual and transgender individuals will not be covered. there will be no separate showers or housing. sexual conduct will be arbitrated by the uniform code of justice. captain anthony woods commanded 81 troops in combat in two tours in iraq before the surge and expelled from the military for being gay. the west point graduate said the pentagon could implement the change within six months. one thing that is heartening, this weekend, greatest congratulatory e-mails and text messages i received were from the 81 soldiers who i led in iraq. >> reporter: spokesman for veteran of foreign wars says it won't be easy. >> if you have the seen posting, they are seeing the small terrain in army units and they are huddled up.