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Defense Secretary Ash Carter speaks during a news conference in June 2016 at the Pentagon.

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Ash Carter, the U.S. defense secretary who opened combat jobs to women, dies at 68

11:21am October 25, 2022

by The Associated Press

In December 2015, after three years of study and debate, Carter ordered the military to open all jobs to women. He also ended the Pentagon's ban on transgender people serving in the military.

The FBI's El Paso, Texas, office received a report of an assault of a female service member by male Afghan evacuees at a complex in New Mexico.

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FBI Investigating Reported Assault of Female U.S. Service Member By Afghan Evacuees

3:40pm September 25, 2021

by Deepa Shivaram

The service member said male evacuees staying at the Doña Ana County Range Complex in New Mexico assaulted her, according to local reports.

Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL students in training in 2014. The Navy now has two female candidates to join the elite special operations forces for the first time since front-line combat jobs were opened to women.

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The Navy Gets Its First Female SEAL Candidate

6:17pm July 20, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

Along with the SEAL officer candidate, another woman is up for an elite job as a special boat operator, some 18 months after the Pentagon opened front-line combat jobs to women.