(BBC) Pentagon to end ban on women in front-line combat

Posted by Kendall Harmon

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has decided to lift the military's ban on women serving in combat, a senior Pentagon official has said.

The move could open hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and elite commando jobs to women.

It overturns a 1994 rule prohibiting women from being assigned to small ground-combat units.

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Posted January 24, 2013 at 5:45 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. carl+ wrote:

More folly from those who know not their left from their right hand.

January 24, 10:29 am | [comment link]
2. Tomb01 wrote:

No sweat, it will be simple to dig two different latrines in each camp.  Naturally, the women will have to dig their own….

January 24, 9:32 pm | [comment link]
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