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Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey sign a memorandum for a women in service review during a press conference with media at the Pentagon, Washington D.C. on January 24, 2013. The memorandum rescinds the 1994 Direct Ground Combat Definition and Assignment Rule excluding women from assignment to units and positions whose primary mission is to engage in direct combat on the ground. (DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Bradley C. Church)