Jul 7 2014
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Female Marines have already begun proving their combat ability with eighty-five women making it through the infantry…
Apr 15 2014
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As the military slowly integrates women into potentially all combat positions per Pentagon orders, reports about how…
Mar 20 2014
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Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair was sentenced Thursday, receiving no jail time. He was reprimanded, whatever that means,…
Mar 19 2014
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As testimony wraps up in the case of Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, a new story has been revealed: when General…
Feb 26 2014
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The U.S. Army has banned 588 soldiers from working as sexual assault counselors, recruiters and drill sergeants for…
Jan 3 2014
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In November, the Marines announced that they'd pushed back a new requirement for women in the Marines to complete…
Dec 3 2013
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A male sergeant stationed at Fort Hood military base is currently on trial for using a prostitution ring allegedly…
Nov 21 2013
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Three women have passed the recently revised Marine Corps fitness tests and will graduate from Camp Geiger on…
Feb 1 2013
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It's currently very slim pickings when it comes to playable female characters in popular military video games, even…
Jul 9 2012
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It's happening: the Marine Corps officially announced — as expected — that it will allow women to start training at…
Jun 13 2012
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The military reported 471 rapes of servicemembers in 2011, but the real number is probably higher, since the…
May 24 2012
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Two female soldiers are suing the U.S. military for banning them (and all women) from front-line combat positions,…
Apr 20 2012
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The issue of women in combat has long been a thorny one for the military. While laws forbidding women from serving…
Sep 27 2011
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In most countries, women aren't allowed to serve in combat roles. However, that doesn't mean they don't end up on…
Jun 8 2011
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A new study finds that in the year after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, male and female servicemembers had…
May 30 2011
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Women aren't supposed to serve in military units whose primary focus is ground combat, but that doesn't mean they…
May 18 2011
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Good news: Libya has released four detained journalists, including Clare Morgana Gillis, and Al Jazeera's Dorothy…
May 3 2011
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Dorothy Parvaz, a reporter for Al Jazeera, hasn't been heard from since she arrived in Syria Friday. The Committee…
May 2 2011
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Kabul was a fishbowl and not conducive to actual dating, even though the foreign women were vastly outnumbered by…
May 2 2011
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In 2005, as violence raged in Iraq, Iran grew more defiant, and Lebanon rumbled with revolution, my friend Annia…