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SubscribeWomen in combat: a welcome and overdue decision
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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is lifting the ban on women serving in combat roles. The ban removal was reportedly recommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, overturning a 1994 rule keeping women out of ground combat units.
Progress should be made outside of war
I absolutely believe that women can and will do military combat as effectively as men [“Women in Combat,” Opinion, Jan. 25]. I just see no reason to celebrate this, or regard it as “progress.”
I was hoping that women might lead men toward a better way of solving conflict than killing each other.
--Fred LaMotte, Steilacoom
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