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The policy change is a reflection of reality on the ground, military officials say.

Two women who said they were raped while attending U.S. military academies sued military officials on Friday, accusing them of failing to address widespread problems of sexual assault at the elite schools.

Amnesty International said Monday that Egypt's military rulers have acknowledged carrying out so-called "virginity tests" on female protesters -- the first time the army has admitted to the much-criticized practice.

Parris Island, the South Carolina military installation that has trained thousands of young Marines, has its first female commander.

Two failed marriages were the cost of war for Sgt. Jennifer Schobey. The breaking point in her first marriage came when her husband deployed to Afghanistan, the last in a long line of separations they had endured as they juggled two military careers. Schobey married another combat veteran, but eventually that union failed under the weight of two cases of post-traumatic stress disorder - his and hers. They are now getting divorced.

The U.S. military's ban on women serving on submarines passed quietly into history Thursday morning.

Before 2001, America’s military women had rarely seen ground combat, but the Afghanistan and Iraq wars have changed that.