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The U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has one of the biggest reforms of the American military in decades. He has the ban on women on the front line in future wars. The new ruling the fact that women have been their lives at risk for many years. Mr Panetta told reporters: "Female service members have the reality of combat, their willingness to fight and, yes, to die to their fellow Americans." Panetta said many very able women soldiers have been from doing a job they love because of their gender. He said: “We it to them to allow them to every avenue of military service for which they are fully and .”

The Defense Secretary announced there was an important proviso to his new ruling – that women must be able to the military’s standards, physical ones. Army Sergeant Jeremy Grayson agreed, saying: “Women would have to be able to do the physical stuff that men . They have to be able to their own weight.” Another Army spokesman, Anthony Lemaitre, the public to be prepared to seeing women troops come home in body bags or with lost limbs. He said: “It’s harder to see a mother or a daughter dead.” There could now be up to 237,000 positions available for women that are currently off limits to them. The Army says the ruling will the military in many ways.