Women Recruited for U.S. Military

The U.S. Military is finally catching on to something we've always known: Women can do anything. All parts of all branches of the service—including the Navy's SEAL program—are beginning to recruit women for combat jobs, according to The Associated Press, and female officers could be serving in previously male-only Army and Marine Corps infantry units as early as this fall. In December, Defense Secretary Ash Carter ordered all combat jobs open to women. Top military leaders resisted at first and tried to keep some infantry and combat jobs closed. But in recent weeks, the services have developed specific, step-by-step plans to incorporate women into the male-only units—plans to provide special training, injury assessments, and protect against sexual harassment or assault problems—which Carter has accepted. He is expected to sign a memo within days giving the military the green-light to begin executing those plans next month. Of course, even without being allowed to train for combat roles, women have been serving—and sometimes giving their lives—in combat zones for years. Illinois Rep. Tammy Duckworth lost both of her legs when the helicopter she was flying was hit by rocket propelled grenade; it's almost crazy to think that she wasn't technically in
The U.S. Military is finally catching on to something we've always known: Women can do anything. All parts of all branches of the service—including the Navy's SEAL program—are beginning to recruit women for combat jobs, according to The Associated Press, and female officers could be serving in previously male-only Army and Marine Corps infantry units as early as this fall. In December, Defense Secretary Ash Carter ordered all combat jobs open to women. Top military leaders resisted at first and tried to keep some infantry and combat jobs closed. But in recent weeks, the services have developed specific, step-by-step plans to incorporate women into the male-only units—plans to provide special training, injury assessments, and protect against sexual harassment or assault problems—which Carter has accepted. He is expected to sign a memo within days giving the military the green-light to begin executing those plans next month. Of course, even without being allowed to train for combat roles, women have been serving—and sometimes giving their lives—in combat zones for years. Illinois Rep. Tammy Duckworth lost both of her legs when the helicopter she was flying was hit by rocket propelled grenade; it's almost crazy to think that she wasn't technically in

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