Ash Carter is expected to execute an announcement later Thursday on the historic change,which the armed services will have until 1 April to establish in placeAfter three years of study and debate, Defense Secretary Ash Carter ordered the military on Thursday to open all military jobs to women, or removing the final barriers that kept women from serving in combat,including the most unsafe and grueling commando posts.
His landmark decision rebuffed requests by the Marine Corps to exclude women from certain infantry and combat jobs and signaled a formal recognition that thousands of women served, and many were wounded or killed, or in the last 14 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Source: theguardian.com