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.
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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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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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.
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.
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.
Professor RICHARD McNALLY: (Harvard University) Some of the issues and criticisms that had been raised mainly by historians of military psychiatry who had pointed out how do you get 30 percent PTSD rates when only about 15 percent of the men who served in Vietnam were actually assigned to combat units?
Lieutenant General TED STROOP (Retired, U.S. Army): And the real question, which we will not be able to answer until you really see whether or not the Army makes its final recruiting marks and that would be perhaps four to five months after the recruiting year is closed, is whether or not you will find shortages in some of the combat units.
That may mean such women simply cannot perform certain tasks essential to the performance of their units in combat.
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Already the military services have curtailed flight and combat training for many units, grounded some Air Force squadrons and delayed or canceled some ship deployments.
You got a double whammy here where they are lengthening the tours of some units in combat, and shortening the time that they spend at home in between tours.
Despite the change in Pentagon policy, it still remains to be seen how receptive the military will be to placing women in combat roles, especially elite units like Rangers, SEALs and Army Special Forces.
"We will increase U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan by deploying a Marine battalion this November and in January 2009 an Army brigade combat team -- both units that had been slated for Iraq, " Gates said.
He argues that just as special army units were trained to fight the FARC in the jungle, special police units are needed to combat crime in the cities.
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