AdvertisementPentagon Says Women Can Now Serve In Front-Line Ground Combat PositionsDecember 03, 2015Bill ChappellfacebookEmailDefense Secretary Ash Carter is expected to announce that women can now serve in front-line combat posts. Here, Carolina Ortiz moves away from a 155-mm artillery piece after loading it during a live-fire exercise at the Marine base in Twentynine Palms, Calif., earlier this year, during a months-long study of how women might perform in ground combat jobs. (NPR)