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I see an executive order coming. For the moment, the Selective Service is sticking with the science of chromosomes as the determinant of sex.

Women could be poised to breach the final frontier of military macho. For the first time yesterday, women were included in a Marine Corps infantry officer training, a grueling three-month course at Quantico, Virginia, where Marines are schooled in making command decisions under extreme stress. Women have fought and died in every American war, and more than 280,000 of them have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, but they are still barred from the infantry. In February, as my colleague Adam Weinstein reported, the Department of Defense urged Congress to allow women to serve in more combat-related jobs, and has since...

Forces entrenched at the Pentagon keep trying to push women onto the front lines of combat, despite the fact that U.S. law forbids it. The latest bid: A push to start assigning female soldiers to act as "forward support" personnel (such as mechanics), living alongside combat troops who are often in battle. Last week, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) moved to block that with an amendment to the 2006 Defense appropriations bill. The Pentagon and Democrats howled in protest. But why? Who wants more women to be shot? This is a small scene in the larger drama over the feminization of...

The Pentagon is implementing new military plans that will make the concept of women in combat a reality.

WND AT THE WHITE HOUSE McClellan sidesteps women-in-combat Spokesman queried about rapes, pregnancies in co-ed military Posted: May 19, 2004 5:40 p.m. Eastern Editor's note: Each week, WorldNetDaily White House correspondent Les Kinsolving asks the tough questions no one else will ask. And each week, WorldNetDaily brings you the transcripts of those dialogues with the president and his spokesman. By Les Kinsolving © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com At today's White House news briefing, WND asked presidential press secretary Scott McClellan about sexual assaults in the military and women in combat. WND: Scott, the top of Page 1 of Sunday's New York Times...

IN THE MILITARY Just say 'no' to pregnant soldiers? Petition asks Bush to revise Clinton-era 'social engineering' policies Posted: September 26, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Diana Lynne © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com As the death toll of American soldiers continues to rise in Iraq, one civilian woman on the sidelines here at home continues her battle to strengthen the military by taking her case to the commander in chief, and she's launched a petition drive to catch his attention. Question: Why was a 7-pound baby boy born aboard a warship in the Gulf war zone near Kuwait in May? Question: Why...

A little-known but controversial Pentagon agency that advises the government on issues affecting women in the military is being called into question, as the war against terrorism heightens the debate about women serving in combat. The progressive organization that fought to place women closer to the front lines is criticized by some conservative women as advocating outdated feminism, and one Washington media report said conservative political appointees to the Defense Department are gunning for the civilian group. At issue is the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, known as "DACOWITS." Founded in 1951 by then-Secretary of Defense George...

Eight female soldiers training to perform ground sweeps in the mountains of Afghanistan were removed from their Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition squadrons, an Army spokeswoman announced yesterday. The female soldiers were reassigned after the implementation of a Pentagon mandate forbidding women from participating in ground reconnaissance units, a reversal of a Clinton administration policy that made these units open to women. The mandate came despite an earlier Army announcement that it had no plans to change the units’ mixed-sex status, according to the Washington Times. The ban also comes in the wake of another troubling Bush Administration change that...

May 30, 2002--There’s an old song, from the ‘40s I think it was, called “Little Things Mean A Lot.” It was a love song but that’s also the way it is with national administrations. We all tend to look at the big picture and the headline stories when we judge presidents and congresses and governors but often it’s the little things that tell you where their hearts and heads are. This administration is no exception. We concentrate on terrorism and the middle east and the possibility of war between India and Pakistan and on domestic issues such as farm subsidies,...