About 33,000 of the positions in the
Army today that are closed to women are closed because they were in units that
were designated as direct ground combat. That will change this year in units
that are not under Army Special Operations. The Office of the Secretary of
Defense recently notified Congress of the Army's intent to open those 33,000
positions to women. The change is expected to take place in April 2014, said
Col. Linda Sheimo, chief of the Command Programs and Policy Division at the
Directorate of Military Personnel Management, Army G-1.
Sheimo said that with recent force structure changes, the Army moved away from "focusing on units. Our plan allowed us to identify all the positions that were closed across the three components, regardless of the unit." Those 33,000 positions do not include anything within the Special Operations community, she said. "When we complete congressional notification in April 2014, the Army will have opened approximately 55,000 positions to women, across all three components, since May 2012. " Sheimo said.
Sheimo said that with recent force structure changes, the Army moved away from "focusing on units. Our plan allowed us to identify all the positions that were closed across the three components, regardless of the unit." Those 33,000 positions do not include anything within the Special Operations community, she said. "When we complete congressional notification in April 2014, the Army will have opened approximately 55,000 positions to women, across all three components, since May 2012. " Sheimo said.
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