Panetta formally lifts women-in-battle ban

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Panetta formally lifts women-in-battle ban

Policy will now reflect reality, he states

By DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS

Posted: January 25, 2013 at 12:35 a.m.

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Army Lt. Col. Tamatha Patterson of Huntingdon, Tenn., waits Thursday at the Pentagon for Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to hand her the memorandum he had just signed that ends the 1994 ban on women serving in combat.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Thursday formally lifted the military’s ban on women in combat, saying that not every woman would become a combat soldier but that every woman deserved the chance to try.

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