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Women Soldiers Pay Price on Front Lines

Published March 20, 2013

The Pentagon's recent decision to eliminate rules that exclude women from direct combat roles was merely symbolic for many women soldiers - who have already been in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Luis Ramirez visited the U.S. Army’s Seventh Sustainment Brigade at Fort Eustis, Virginia, and filed this report.


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