Tag Archives: women in combat

BREAKING: Military lifts ban on women serving in combat

By Maya | Published: January 23, 2013

Tweet Well, it’s about time. Senior defense officials say Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is removing the military’s ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after more than a decade at war. The groundbreaking move recommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff overturns a 1994 [...]

Also tagged ban on women in combat, women in the military | Comments closed

Combat Exclusion for Women Should No Longer Be the Rule

By aclu | Published: May 17, 2012

TweetBy Tiseme Zegeye, ACLU Women’s Rights Project & Elayne Weiss, ACLU Washington Legislative Office Earlier this week Huffington Post reported, "American women have served in the military since there has been an America to serve." And while it is widely acknowledged that women are already engaging in combat, American servicewomen continue to be officially excluded [...]

Also tagged combat exclusion | Comments closed

Lifting ban on women in combat

Originally posted in Community Blog

By Kiki Cardenas | Published: March 14, 2011

Tweetcrossposted at loosegarments.wordpress.com I had an abundance of strangers and friends ask me in complete shock and disbelief over WHY I would ever want to join the military, when I had told them that that’s what I was doing with my life. I had a million reasons to respond with really (I myself had a [...]