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Defense secretary leon panetta today declared what a decade of wars in afghanistan and iraq have made painfully clear. women are as combat ready as men. >> theyre fighting and theyre dying together, and the time has come for our policies to recognize that reality. >> joining us now is goldie taylor, an msnbc contributor, and david corn, d.c. bureau chief of "mother jones" magazine. welcome to you both. goldie, this new policy ends the direct ground combat exclusion for women. you are a former ma...

Bounds of the combat exclusion policy for female engagement teams, women manning machine guns, leading convoys, fired at virtually all over the battlefield. >> right. >> there were no front lines and we didnt need extra studies or research and the interesting thing that that parallel to dont ask dont tell is very good because i think the military learned from that example that it didnt want to be pushed in to making that decision by the courts and it was very close to that situation. here, you k...

Its specific treatment for diabetic nerve pain. to hear more patient stories, visit lyrica.com. hi, everybody. good morning. im thomas roberts. several developing stories unfolding in washington right now. any minute, dianne feinstein set to introduce a bill to ban assault weapons. along with the vice president joe biden, who will hold his own fire side chat on google plus this afternoon to talk about the presidents sweeping and ambitious gun control plan, then in a matter of hours, the pent g...

Arent getting the health care and benefits they need. when women are reintegrating back into society, they are not getting the support, the mental health care or the compensation. >> the assumption is they havent seen combat. >> maybe they were communication specialists or a member of a female team attached to an infantry. they are not getting the same credit or recognition. the brass ceiling in the military world, as opposed to the gas ceiling prevents women from accessing more assignments. the...