Assignment Rule News Today

Last year, the Supreme Court declined to overturn the current requirements for selective service, claiming that there was a rational basis for women’s exclusion from combat roles. Still, in many respects, the U.S. has never been closer to imposing equal draft registration requirements on both men and women than it was in 2021.

However, many military positions, particularly in ground combat units still remain lossed to women because of the 1994 direct ground combat definition and assignment rule. military and civilian leaders of this department have been taking a hard look at that rule based on the experiences of the last decade. in early 2012 we announced a series of modifications to that rule which opened up more than 14,000 new positions to women, including positions that were co-located with ground combat units and...