Exhibit D in the CMR Special Report Part I, posted above, highlights the voices of women interviewed by an academic researcher when the push for women in the infantry was just beginning in 2012. There is no evidence that Marine women want to be eligible for the combat arms on an involuntary basis. March 2015 Edition of Military Medicine Magazine: Changes in Combat Task Performance Under Increasing Loads in Active-Duty Marines
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The services were ordered to study the issue and develop an implementation plan. In 2013 then Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta ordered the services to lift the ban on women serving in combat jobs in the military.
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They will also be able to compete for spots on elite Special Operations units, such as the Army’s Delta force and the Navy SEALs. Women will “be allowed to drive tanks, fire mortars and lead infantry soldiers into combat,” he said. READ MORE: Ash Carter calls homegrown terrorists ‘losers with a keyboard’ These include positions in the infantry, artillery and armored divisions. Army and Marine Corps bar women from nearly 220,000 jobs in what are known as combat arms. The Air Force and Navy have relatively few jobs that currently exclude women, mainly in Special Forces units. 1 deadline was in place for the branches to open combat positions to women. there will be no exceptions.” The implementation will take place 30 days from today.Ī Jan. military will be open to women, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced today at the Pentagon.Ĭarter said that the military would be opening all “remaining occupations and positions to women. All combat roles in each branch of the U.S.