last spring in afghanistan, i followed a female engagement team of marines going into the homes of afghan women. they are definitely a key player in getting information. reporter: women still can t be assigned to ground combat teams but for years kpand commanders have been getting around pentagon policy by attaching them to units. the marine corps had to impose a time limit. so in afghanistan every six weeks the female engagement teams go back to a big base for one night and reattach with their combat unit for 45 days. a none sensical policy that we have been living with for nine years and it does confuse the on the ground commanders. reporter: this woman runs the women in the military project and has seen more changes in all of the years since world war ii. in these wars women are shooting and killing and they have not done that if u.s. wars