article_snippet.sent: The studies are part of the Pentagon's effort to open all military combat positions to women or provide reasons why any jobs should remain closed.
article_snippet.sent: Changing times: In the past the military acknowledged that women will not be able to fill every combat role .
article_snippet.sent: Pentagon leaders lifted the ban on women in combat jobs in 2012, but gave the military services time to integrate women gradually and systematically into the male-only front-line positions.
article_snippet.sent: By January 2016, the military must open all combat jobs to women or explain why any exceptions must be made.
article_snippet.sent: As a result, all combat jobs are some of the last to be addressed as commanders review the qualifications needed and assess the impact of bringing in women.
article_snippet.sent: Women have so far had mixed results as Women try to move into the more demanding combat positions — jobs for which men also have difficulty qualifying.
article_snippet.sent: New opportunities: In 2013 the Defense Department rescinded the Defense Department 1994 policy restricting women from serving in combat-focused positions such as infantry units, opening up 230,000 positions to female service members .
article_snippet.sent: So far, about 7,200 positions within the special operations forces have been opened to women, including combat jobs in the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, a specialized unit used to fly forces fast, low and deep behind enemy lines at night.
article_snippet.sent: For the first time, a woman last year made it through training and began serving as a pilot in the unit.
article_snippet.sent: Three female pilots, 25 women in other jobs, and 16 other women are now going through initial training for these helicopter crews, known as Night Stalkers.
article_snippet.sent: Most female soldiers do not want combat jobs, an earlier survey found.
article_snippet.sent: Women have moved into Army artillery jobs and serve on Navy submarines and in the naval Riverine units.
article_snippet.sent: The studies are part of the Pentagon's effort to open all military combat positions to women or provide reasons why any jobs should remain closed .