Sentence examples for opened combat from inspiring English sources

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question about whether women should register for the draft "arose immediately" after the combat-exclusion policy was rescinded.

After the military opened combat jobs to women last year, the question about whether they should also register for the Selective Service was left hanging.

Over the last year, the Pentagon has opened combat positions to women, given gay and lesbian service members protection from discrimination and lifted bans against transgender men and women serving openly in the military.

The military must identify the best female candidates in high schools, colleges and military academies, sell them on the importance of their presence in the newly opened combat roles and get them proper training.

Open combat between the Zapatistas and the government ended after 12 days, and took the lives of some 130 people.

"By officially opening combat roles," she added, "more women will be able to advance their careers to the senior ranks and increase the diversity of our military leadership".

Knights would open combat with the lance and continue it with the sword, fighting either on horseback or, if forced to dismount, on foot.

He said he would do "everything possible under current law" to provide equal benefits to gay service members and would work to open combat positions to women, a decision he said he strongly supported.

Critics of opening combat positions to women have argued for years that integration during deployments could create a distracting, sexually charged atmosphere in the force and that women are unable to perform some of the more physically demanding jobs.

In the 1990s, conservative activist Elaine Donnellyaccused Rep. Patricia Schroeder and "her feminist friends at the Pentagon" of trying to "undermine readiness and morale for the sake of social engineering" by opening combat billets to women "to advance the career ambitions of a few". This idea had staying power: In 2013, retired Army Gen. Jerry Boykinrepeated a version of it to CNN.

US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is expected to receive by October 31 a recommendation from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on opening combat arms positions to qualified women.