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Archive Home > 2013 > January > 24 > Women get OK for combat

Women get OK for combat

By Elisabeth Bumiller and Thom Shanker / The Bulletin
January 24, 2013

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is lifting the military’s ban on women in combat, which will open up hundreds of thousands of additional front-line jobs to them, senior defense officials said Wednesday.

The groundbreaking decision overturns a 1994 Pentagon rule....

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