Thursday, January 24, 2013

MILITARY - Lift on Banning Women in Combat

"Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Lifts Armed Services Ban on Women in Combat" PBS Newshour 1/23/2013

Excerpt

SUMMARY:  Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta decided to lift the ban on women in the military serving in combat, opening thousands of front line jobs to women and reversing the 1994 policy that kept them out of those positions.  Gwen Ifill talks with James Kitfield of National Journal about the historic change and implications.

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