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"Just days into President Obama&amp;#x27;s second term, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta has made a huge change for women in the military this afternoon. According to AP, senior defense officials say Panetta is removing the military ban on women serving in combat. This will open up &amp;quot;hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after more than a decade at war&amp;quot; as early as this year. The rule that&amp;#x27;s banned women from being assigned to smaller ground combat units has been in place since 1994. In Glamour, "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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