The Army and Marine Corps, especially, will be examining physical standards and gender-neutral accommodations within combat units.
Combat units report finding several weapons and explosives caches, along with car bombs and other homemade explosives.
Last month Zamir organized a conference of his former cadets who are now serving in IDF combat units.
Soldiers from the national religious sector remain overrepresented in all IDF combat units and in the officer corps.
"If we start seeing more defections from the higher ranks of combat units that will be significant, " White said.
Women can serve in front line positions in the US military, but they are barred from ground combat units.
Opposition to the change was much stronger in Army and Marine combat units than in the military as a whole.
But he put himself through college, earned a PhD, and was helping combat units cope with the stress of deployment.
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They cannot be dismissed as left wing radicals: most are officers from combat units who have served on front lines.
Additionally, he believes women in combat units may negatively change the dynamics, creating conditions of sexual competition and sexual harassment.
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The committee heard evidence that entire combat units, such as aircraft and warships, could be rendered completely dysfunctional by an attack.
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Some branches of the armed forces, especially the crack combat units, were much less relaxed about the idea of openly gay comrades.
Seventy percent of graduates serve in combat units and 30% become officers.
They have also used their formidable presence in Israel's combat units and supporters in Mr Netanyahu's ruling coalition to press home their advantage.
The lawsuit launched on Tuesday says they are barred from 238, 000 positions, but also alleges that they are already serving unofficially in combat units.
But Gabbard said there will be women who qualify for combat units under today's standards -- such as a friend of hers from MP school.
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Panetta said the move is a bow to reality on the battlefield, where women in what are technically non-combat units already find themselves fighting alongside their male comrades.
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The Navy put its first female officers on submarines in the past year, and certain female ground troops have been attached to combat units in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Navy has put its first female officers on submarines in the past year, and certain female ground troops have been attached to combat units in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Today, by moving to open more military positions including ground combat units to women, our armed forces have taken another historic step toward harnessing the talents and skills of all our citizens.
Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. military is ending its policy of excluding women from combat and will open combat jobs and direct combat units to female troops, multiple officials told CNN on Wednesday.
Kayla Williams, author of the memoir, "Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army, " said she thought most of the enlisted men would accept women into combat units.
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Multiple news outlets report that outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has decided to allow women to serve in military combat roles, reversing a 1994 policy that excluded women from serving in combat units.
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The change overturns a 1994 rule prohibiting women from being assigned to smaller ground combat units, and is expected to open up more than 230, 000 combat positions that have been off limits to women.
Before taking the drastic step of allowing women to serve in combat units, has the government considered whether introducing women into the above-described situation would have made my unit more or less combat effective?
And to date, men like Tzafrir, who served in the IDF's elite combat units, and whose sons and daughters continue to bear the greatest burdens in our defense, have answered their calls without hesitation.
Last week -- after seven-and-a-half years that tested our mettle like no conflict in recent American history -- the last of our combat units followed that same dusty highway out of Iraq, on their way home.
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Lilyea, a former sergeant who fought in Desert Storm, wrote he was opposed to women in combat units, not because women are a distraction but because he thinks the Army and other services will be required to accept more women than are qualified or can be trained.
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And it's taken a while for the Army's personnel system, the Army's officer corps to really understand how fundamental this shift is, that the key to success is no longer exclusively American combat units well trained and well led, but is now increasingly Iraqi Security Forces well trained and well led.
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