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Urgent: Pentagon to open all combat jobs to women for first time: Carter

Xinhua, December 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

U.S. defense chief Ash Carter said on Thursday the U.S. military would open all combat jobs to women.

Carter's announcement was a flat rejection of Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Joseph Dunford's previous remarks which argued that the U.S. Marines should be allowed to keep women out of certain front-line combat jobs. Endit