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

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

  1. carl+ says:

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

  2. Tomb01 says:

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