Patrick T. Fallon The Pentagon is mounting a six-month review of women in ground combat jobs, to ensure what it calls the military “effectiveness” of having several thousand female soldiers and ...

On March 8, International Women's Day honors Artemisia, Joan of Arc, and modern warriors like Leigh Ann Hester who shattered combat barriers.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women who have served in combat arms jobs say a new Pentagon review of their "effectiveness" is the latest example of doubts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pentagon officials ordered a review of the “effectiveness” of women serving in combat roles, nearly a decade after those jobs were ...

Thus it is not just infantrymen, trained to kill in close combat, who are dying in Iraq, although they are taking the heaviest losses. Soldiers whose roles are categorized as "support," where most of ...

The Pentagon is mounting a six-month review of women in ground combat jobs, to ensure what it calls the military "effectiveness" of having several thousand female soldiers and Marines in infantry, ...