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The groundbreaking move overturns a 1994 rule preventing women from serving in ground combat units. The military has been given until 2016 to recommend any special exceptions to the new regulation.
Senior defense officials say Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is removing the military's ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after more than a decade at war.
 The Pentagon has raised Israel’s counterintelligence threat level to its highest category, amid growing alarm that... |
 The Department of Defense moved this week to dramatically reduce the number of recognized religions, faiths... | ||
 June 6, 1944: The Day That Changed the War
Before sunrise on June 6, 1944, thousands of... |
 The House Armed Services Committee adopted a provision for the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)... |
