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Women in Combat Ends Longstanding Military Ban
A historical overview traces how American women served in many roles from Revolutionary times to today and how the 2013 decision by Defense Secretary Panetta ends the ban on women in combat. It notes nurses, spies, clerks, and pilots, with 152 women dying in Iraq and Afghanistan and over 200,000 serving in recent wars.
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Washington
Confederacy
Lory Manning
Women’s Research & Education Institute
Army Nurse Corps
George Washington
Mary E. Walker
Harriet Tubman
South
Virginia
Elizabeth van Lew
Clara Barton
American Red Cross
Navy
Army
Marines
Europe
Lion U
Air Force
Wilma L. Vaught
America
Vaught
Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation
Congress
Pentagon
Korea
Vietnam
Armed Services
Defense Department
Afghanistan
Iraq
Defense
Leon Panetta
Panetta
1St Brigade Combat Team
101St Airborne Division
Fort Campbell
U.S