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Male and female Marine platoons to integrate at recruit training for the first time
Third Recruit Training Battalion at Parris Island, South Carolina, will start its training cycle with one female platoon and five male platoons.
By Shawn Snow
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Military women, female veterans are shifting away from GOP
Both current and former female service members were more likely to vote in the 2018 midterm elections for Democrats than Republicans, 60 percent to 36 percent, according to the data from VoteCast.
Mattis: Jury is out on women succeeding in combat jobs
Defense secretary says he is asking Army, Marine Corps if women serving in the infantry is a strength or weakness.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press