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Departing general favors ending ban on women in battle

By Greg Jaffe

 |  Washington Post  

  February 05, 2012

Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army’s vice chief of staff, has left the Army in much the same manner that he served in it over the past decade: as an iconoclast. The general said in an interview that the law banning women from combat jobs in the military was an anachronism, and that women are already effectively serving in combat roles. He said the Army should set clear physical standards for combat jobs and then require men and women to meet them.

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