The Defense Department holds a news briefing on new rules for allowing Women into Combat. The change would continue to bar women from serving directly in frontline infantry, armor and special operations forces.
But the proposed regulations, expected to take effect this summer, would allow women to serve in non-infantry battalion jobs, such as radio operators, intelligence analysts, medics, radar operators and tank mechanics.
Women in combat could be placed together with combat forces, such as supply convoys in areas of fighting.