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Combat roles to women, but the marine corps filed an exemption that was ultimately denied. why was the marine corps so resistant to putting women in combat roles? >> why were they resistant? i think that the marines have done things a certain way for i think the marines have done things for generations and it was tough for them to comprehend the idea of filling those roles, but women have been in the marines since and have been marines since the marines began in the 1700s, and they have also always engaged in marine combat training. they just did it separately from men. the marines are the onl...

Download the xfi app today. tonight, lisa ling is back with a new episode of this is life with lisa ling. she gets rare look inside the u.s. marine corp. initiative to integrate women into combat training where they learn to fight and kill. here's a preview. >> next to your weapons. >> when you think back on the little girl from el salvador, how do you think she would feel if she could see you today? >> i think she would be pretty surprised. >> being here, protecting my country. giving freedom and not having that where i was from, it's something old me probably would be really proud about.

For decades and decades men and women have done it separately up until the last couple of years, and so we embedded with -- with a company called hotel company in camp pendleton, the last base to -- to begin gender integration, and we profile the number of women who are training alongside their male count parts, and you'll see how it went tonight on "this is life." >> lisa, how did the male marines, given that this has been so controversial in the past, how did the male marines that you spoke with feel about the -- the women being integrated into the marine corps? was there some wariness, or w...

>> what else do you have in store this season? >> it's a very diverse season. our next episode will be about ben zoe die as pe-- they're som the most widely prescribed medications on earth, but doctors have been overprescribing them in some cases and people have really been dealing with devastating consequences. we embed with a group of female marines in marine combat training where they are training alongside men for the first time in camp pendleton. we have a sweet episode about identical twins. and we also embed with the nypd during their highest threat day event of the year. >> sounds so i...

It is not something that should be taboo but when you type in a couple of words, what you see is really alarming. and in many cases it is really grotesque. >> we have a few seconds left. what else do you have in store this season. >> we have a benzodiazepine and we're talking about valium, scan ax and ativan and klonopin. this is one of the mostin fury ating experiences as a reporter because i realized these are the most widely prescribed medications in the world to treat anxiety but many doctors don't know how to treat the symptoms of addiction and withdrawal when people do, in fact, become a...