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To days before 9/11, and what happens with these widows, they become almost the guiding light of the jihad in places like europe. so it's not unusual to see women's involvement. what they have done is up until now they played support roles. we don't see in the jihadi groups very many women who are operational as opposed to, say in chechneya, where the women are on the front lines and blowing up a school. >> eric, the idea of these women in muslim countries, and there is a reluctant on part of the security to pat them down, that certainly works to their benefit. yes? >> sure. it is a great bene...

To days before 9/11, and what happens with these widows, they become almost the guiding light of the jihad in places like europe. so it's not unusual to see women's involvement. what they have done is up until now they played support roles. we don't see in the jihadi groups very many women who are operational as opposed to, say in chechneya, where the women are on the front lines and blowing up a school. >> eric, the idea of these women in muslim countries, and there is a reluctant on part of the security to pat them down, that certainly works to their benefit. yes? >> sure. it is a great bene...

Support roles that put them right in the middle of conflicts where the new front line is wherever the next ied or mortar attack or suicide bomb happens to b and while the u.s. military's old policy discriminated against the women as the casualties can attest, the attackers did not. 283,000 women have been deployed to iraq and afghanistan since 2001, and since then, more than 800 women have been wounded and more than 130 killed in those conflicts. so the pentagon's announcement was not only welcomed, but long overdue, and more importantly, it also shatters what has been a nearly impenetrable br...

And the way this will work, the military services have several months now to draw up a plan to combat, qualify and train women for many positions, combat infantry positions in the military. and then after that time, they will begin the implementation, the training. so none of this is going to happen at any time soon. and most likely, as you said, willie, they'll start out in some of the support roles and gradually work their way into actual trigger pullers, ground combat, infantry soldiers alongside their male counterparts who have been at war in iraq and afghanistan for ten years. now, the ti...

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...