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’s public database left out two deaths of U.S. service members deployed in the Middle...
In a different Washington, under a different president, a return to the well-worn playbook of all-out...
Meink did not provide many details about the weapon or when it was launched, but he...
