exemptions to keep women out of some specific combat jobs. we now know those request for women has been denied. one standard, all services, all jobs. all services will now open all jobs to all service members depending on merit alone and not gender. that includes special operations, that includes artillery, infantry, armor and all other frontline combat positions. the services have a very short time frame. they have until january 1 which is the end of this month, right? january 1 to submit their plans of how they are going to do this in terms of opening all jobs to where i am. they have to have these changes implemented, the start of implementation has to be april 1. so this is going to happen fast now. this has been debated for years. this has been debated now for decades. but as of today, it s done, decision made and as of april 1 it s going to be implemented. now next question the draft. all young american males have to register with the selected service within 30 diefs turning 18
were true, the ore major news story that the country would be riveted by right now is the historic decision made by the pentagon, the decision that all combat jobs in the united states military will now be open to women. the armed forces have been studying that prospect for three years now. it became a very high-profile prospect when women graduated from army ranger school for the first time in history earlier this year. a lot of people said that could physically never happen. it happened. but even with that, nobody had been sure if all combat jobs would be open to women or just some. now we know as of today it s all of them. the chiefs of the army, the navy, the air fort and the special operations command had all agreed already that all of their combat jobs could be open to women. there was a hold-up, though. the marine corps did not agree. the commandante requested
v.a., the department has outdated computer systems. they have a demoralized employee work force. they have more and more veterans every day, and it is only going to grow. this is not a population that is going to decrease. we have seen 14 years of war in this country, and i think one of the most interesting things bob mcdonald told me when i spoke to him, he is already looking ahead to women because we are facing, in the new year, the very real likelihood that all combat jobs will be open to american young women to searrve this country jt as the young men do, and that is going to open a whole new generation of veterans issues for the department. they will have to provide, on an equal basis, medical care to american service women of all types, all kinds of medical care that they may only be doing around the edges now. the population is growing. the population is shifting.
recently two females graduated from the grueling army ranger school, becoming the fist two women first two women to do so. the army, navy and air force plan to open all of their combat jobs to women next year. congressman duncan hunter, himself a former marine, is demanding that mabis resign because he, quote, openly disrespected the marine corps as an institution, and he insulted the competency of marines birdies regarding their professional judgment, their combat experience and their quality of leadership. the debate began in 2013 when then-defense secretary leon panetta and the chairman of the joint chiefs, general martin dempsey, ordered an end to women s exclusion from all front line combat jobs. the service chiefs have until next year to ask for an exemption. jenna? jenna: what a story. jennifer, thank you. jon: well, right now there may be another shake-up underway in the race for the white house. more than 20 million people tuning into the republican
include more women. jennifer griffin live from the pentagon with more. well, a fight is brewing between the navy secretary and the next chairman of the joint chiefs, general joe dunford, who served as marine commandant until recently. the issue involves whether the marines will be allowed to ask for permission to exclude women from some combat jobs after a recent study of female marines concluded, quote, the all-male units moved faster, shot more accurately, could carry more weight and suffered fewer injuries than gender-integrated units. today we ve learned the marine corps plans to ask for an exemption from the defense secretary to keep their infan try and artillery positions all male. but navy secretary may bit, the civilian who oversees the marine corps, says he won t ask for an exemption and immediately questioned the study. nobody s asking for an exemption in the navy. i ve been pretty clear, and i ve been pretty clear about this for a while, i m not going to ask for an exemp