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Ground combat roles. lifting the 20-year ban against women in combat will ultimately put them directly into the heat of battle. it opens some 237,000 combat-related positions to women. initially women will be assigned to combat support roles, communications, logistics and as drivers. gradually, they'll work their way close to the battle as medics, coremen and manning artillery before they become combat infantry troops. despite the ban, women paid the ultimate price of war. 152 u.s. military women have been killed in iraq and afghanistan. congresswoman tammy duckworth lost both her legs as an a...

It has done to keep women from being recognized for serving in combat. >> to make it to a general, for example, without a combat arms command at the brigade or the battalion level, and this will now allow women to have some of that command time. >> in 2009, major mary jennings hager, a combat helicopter pilot in the california air national guard, she was on a medevac mission in afghanistan when her aircraft was shot down. she was wounded on the ground. she had 15 pieces of shrapnel in her right arm and leg, but she still returned to retrieve three wounded soldiers on the ground. she returned f...

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 certain positions in ground combat units below the battalion level. these changes have been impleme...

Being recognized for serving in combat. >> to make it to a general, for example, without a combat arms command at the brigade or the battalion level, and this will now allow women to have some of that command time. >> in 2009, major mary jennings hager, a combat helicopter pilot in the california air national guard, she was on a medevac mission in afghanistan when her aircraft was shot down. she was wounded on the ground. she had 15 pieces of shrapnel in her right arm and leg, but she still returned to retrieve three wounded soldiers on the ground. she returned fire in that attack once she was...

Out of the military and police, bring the afghans and americans back together to start conducting sophisticated operations at the company battalion level and get the initiative restarted all within what, a year, year and a half until we are officially gone. martha: there was a loot of criticism of mitt romney for not talking about afghanistan during his speech at the convention. he later did address it. how do you think the commander in chief is doing in terms of communicating to the american people what the mission is at this point, before we leave there in 2014 as you point out, and what is ...