Women in Combat

摘要

In January 2013, then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta removed the last of the Pentagon's rules limiting what positions service-women can fill, ordering the services to integrate women into previously closed positions no later than Jan. 1, 2016. 1. Panetta's order allowed possible exemptions, but specified that any recommendation to keep a military occupational specialty unit closed to women must be approved personally by the defense secretary. 2. The Marine Corps commandant must decide whether to open to female Marines the most dangerous and physically demanding ground combat jobs. 3. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who will review the commandant's recommendations before they go to Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, has said his presumption is that all positions will be opened to women.