Pentagon To Open New Doors For Women In Combat

Combat Rules Don't Keep Women Off Battlefield -- CBS

On Thursday, the Pentagon will announce a new policy that will open up thousands of support jobs for women in the military. Currently, women are barred from from certain infantry and ground combat units. But as CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports, the policy is at odds with battlefield reality.

Lt. Dawn Halfaker was barred from serving alongside men in ground combat when she went to Iraq in 2004 as commander of a military police platoon. But that didn't keep her out of the fighting.

Halfaker: "I was on the front lines every day for five months."

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