Marines Moving Women Toward the Front Lines

Why More Female Marines Are Moving To The Front Lines

The Marine Corps, the most male of the armed services, is taking its first steps toward integrating women into war-fighting units, starting with its infantry officer school at Quantico, Va., and ground combat battalions that had once been closed to women.

The moves -- announced by Gen. James F. Amos, the Marine Corps commandant, in a message sent to all Marines on Monday night -- are intended largely to study how women perform in formerly male-only units, and reflect new Pentagon rules released in February allowing women to serve closer to the front line.

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