Several U.S. allies, including NATO members France, Canada and Germany, allow women to serve in combat posts.
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He said allowing women to serve in combat roles will strengthen the ability of the U.S. to win wars.
Seventy percent of graduates serve in combat units and 30% become officers.
Before taking the drastic step of allowing women to serve in combat units, has the government considered whether introducing women into the above-described situation would have made my unit more or less combat effective?
Multiple news outlets report that outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has decided to allow women to serve in military combat roles, reversing a 1994 policy that excluded women from serving in combat units.
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Now the evolution of the debate has gone to whether or not women serve in offensive combat positions.
Kyle learned to shoot on hunting trips with his father, then went on to serve four combat tours in Iraq with the SEALs, though his official biography notes he also worked with Army and Marine units.
Women currently make up more than 14% of the 1.4 million active military personnel but were not allowed to serve in over 230, 000 combat positions, despite that they have increasingly served at the front lines.
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Women in the military already are allowed to serve on most Navy ships, as combat pilots and in hundreds of support jobs, including those in war zones.
The Pentagon, however, maintains that landmines still serve a purpose in safeguarding lives in combat.
Women can serve in front line positions in the US military, but they are barred from ground combat units.
Most of the coalition partners are in non-combat zones, where their troops serve as engineers and health care workers and mine-clearers, among other things.
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