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The U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has announced one of the biggest of the American military in . He has lifted the ban on women fighting on the front in future wars. The new ruling reinforces the fact that women have been putting their lives at for many years. Mr Panetta told reporters: "Female service members have the reality of combat, proving their to fight and, yes, to die to defend their Americans." Panetta said many very able women soldiers have been from doing a job they love because of their gender. He said: “We it to them to allow them to pursue every avenue of military service for which they are fully and qualified.”

The Defense Secretary announced there was an important to his new ruling – that women must be able to meet the military’s , including physical ones. Army Sergeant Jeremy Grayson , saying: “Women would have to be able to do the physical stuff that men do. They have to be able to their own weight.” Another Army spokesman, Anthony Lemaitre, the public to be prepared to seeing women troops come home in body bags or with lost . He said: “It’s harder to see a mother or a daughter dead.” There could now be up to 237,000 available for women that are currently off to them. The Army says the ruling will the military in many ways.

 


 
 

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