Another photo op with the military.
Via US News:
Two women have passed the Army’s elite Ranger School, marking a major milestone in the military’s ongoing efforts to consider formally integrating women into all aspects of combat after a decade of war that thrust female troops toward the front lines.
The achievement of the two soldiers, known only as of Tuesday as two West Point graduates, proves that women are capable of passing the Army’s most grueling ground combat leadership course without any alterations to the governing standards. They and their 94 fellow male graduates will now be allowed to wear the coveted black and gold tab after a graduation ceremony President Barack Obama plans to attend.
Female candidates in Ranger School has been a key goal of the military-wide effort to study how it could integrate women into all positions previously closed off to them. In a policy first announced by then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta two years ago, each branch must determine before the end of this year whether it will ask for exemptions on allowing women into any of its units, or must otherwise open them all.