Sentence examples for combat exclusion from inspiring English sources
Dr. MacKenzie's presentation explores the history of the combat exclusion and the recent integration of women into combat roles.
Because of the combat exclusion law, Tammie Jo Shults was prohibited from flying in a combat squadron.
Just this year, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced the end of the military's ground combat exclusion rule.
Removing the combat exclusion was heralded as a success for women in the military and a sign of gender inclusiveness in the military.
"Combat exclusion" is code for being kept from serving in the close-combat arms of the Army, Marines and special forces.
Recently The Post reported that four women serving in the Army, two with Purple Hearts, had filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the military's combat exclusion policy.
Some, like Ms. Hicks at the Pentagon, argue that combat-exclusion rules barring women from the kind of battlefield experience traditionally needed to rise up the military ranks are an important factor limiting women.
In December, Ash Carter, the former Pentagon chief who opened combat jobs to women, said in a report for the Harvard Kennedy School that the question about whether women should register for the draft "arose immediately" after the combat-exclusion policy was rescinded.
A Post Bank will revive and protect the Post Office network, support local economies and small and medium-sized businesses, combat social exclusion and financial inequalities and introduce banking diversity.
The thrust of their work concerns overcoming bureaucratic hurdles that impede the smooth provision of government services – which is certainly less spectacular than the original promise of a body that would combat social exclusion head-on.
