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A look at women who serve in America's military, as the first two women soldiers make history by passing the grueling Ranger Course.
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At that point U.S. Armed force First Lieutenant Kirsten Griest (C) and kindred fighters take an interest in combatives preparing amid the Ranger Course on Fort Benning, Georgia, in this freebee photo tackled April 20, 2015 and got on August 20, 2015. At the point when Griest and another lady finished the overwhelming U.S. Armed force Ranger school this week they helped end questions about whether ladies can serve as battle pioneers, as the Pentagon is ready to open new parts, including tip top Navy SEALs, to ladies in coming months. The deed by Griest and First Lieutenant Shaye Haver took after a re-assessment of the part of ladies after their bleeding edge inclusion in Iraq and Afghanistan and the end of a principle banning them from battle parts in 2013. REUTERS/Spc. NikaylaShodeen/U.S. Armed force/Handout through Reuters
A U.S. marine drinks the blood of a cobra during a jungle survival exercise with the Thai Navy as part of the "Cobra Gold 2013" joint military exercise, at a military base in Chon Buri province, Thailand February 20, 2013. REUTERS/DamirSagolj
U.S. Armed force warrior SSG Norma Gonzales of 426 Civil Affairs Battalion peruses a magazine by kindred officers while holding up to be carried by a helicopter to distinctive U.S. army installations in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan October 11, 2012. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
U.S. Marine and Female Engagement Team pioneer Sgt. Sheena Adams (L) and H.N. Shannon Crowley from First Battalion, Eighth Marines sit in a heavily clad vehicle before taking off on an operation from their base at Musa Qala in southern Afghanistan's Helmand area, November 13, 2010. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly
U.S. Armed force escorts are offered the go-ahead from a kindred officer in the wake of intersection into Kuwait amid the last caravan out of Iraq December 18, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
U.S. Armed force Specialist Nicole Derk of the C Company 3/82 Dustoff MEDEVAC performs a framework keep an eye on a helicopter toward the start of her day of work in Logar territory, eastern Afghanistan, November 21, 2011. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Village elder Haji Amir Mohammad Agha presents a rose to U.S. Army Spc Charli Johnson during a visit by Afghan and U.S. soldiers in Jelawar in the Arghandab Valley north of Kandahar, Afghanistan April 18, 2011. REUTERS/Bob Strong
U.S. Marine Capt. Jill A. Leyden of Easton, Maryland, touches the grave of her companion Major Megan M. McClung at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on Veterans Day, November 11, 2010. McClung was executed amid Operation Iraqi Freedom on December 6, 2006. Leyden and McClung served together in Iraq. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
U.S. officers serving in the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo participate in an activity session with Billy Wayne Blanks, the innovator of Tae Bo activity program, at the military camp Bondsteel in Sojevo, southeast of Pristina, Kosovo January 17, 2011. REUTERS/Hazir Reka
Hospital personnel attempt to revive a mortally wounded Marine after he was brought in by medevac helicopter at Camp Dwyer near the town of Marjah in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, August 22, 2010. REUTERS/Bob Strong
SPC Erica Taliaferro, a U.S. female trooper from 549th MP Company, Task Force Bronco watches in Pachir wa Agam region in Nangarhar area, eastern Afghanistan, March 5, 2012. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
U.S. female warrior SPC Erica Taliaferro from 549th MP Company, Task Force Bronco eats MRE sandwich with an ISAF Afghan police coach (R) inside a protected vehicle as troops stayed inside their vehicles for 15 hours amid a two-day joint U.S-Afghan military mission directing "Course Clearing Patrol", discovering and evacuating roadside bombs on streets, in Nangarhar area, eastern Afghanistan March 8, 2012. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
Authority Joanne Read, of the U.S. Armed force's Bravo Company, first Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, First Armored Division, aides empty a resupply truck at Command Outpost AJK in Maiwand District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, January 24, 2013. REUTERS/Andrew Burton
Second Lt. Johanna Shaffer shares a cookie with an Afghan child while under the security of Marines assigned to 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment (Reinforced), during her all-female team's first mission in Farah Province, February 9, 2009. REUTERS/Monty Burton/U.S. Marine Corps/Handout
U.S Army PFC Jessica Harmon from Task Force Denali 92 MP conveys a peacock at Wazi-Zadram police headquarters in Paktya area, Afghanistan December 11, 2009. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
U.S. Armed force Specialist Nicole Derk of the C Company 3/82 Dustoff MEDEVAC cross-lines amid her day of work in Logar region, eastern Afghanistan November 21, 2011. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
U.S. Battle Medic Health Care Specialist Seantella Cottner of the third Brigade, tenth Mountain Division plays the saxophone in her Forward Aid Station tent on the Combat Operation Outpost (COP) McClain in Logar Province in Afghanistan July 22, 2009. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov
U.S. Flying corps TSgt. Jennifer Kinney treats a warrior who is experiencing battle stress at Combat Stress Control Clinic of 125 BSB Charlie Medical Company of Task Force Mustang at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Shank, in Logar region, eastern Afghanistan November 11, 2011. REUTERS/UmitBektas
U.S. Armed force trooper SPC Katie Luna of 572nd Military Intelligence Company, eighth Squadron, first Cavalry Regiment cries while paying regards amid a dedication administration for detachment part, late SPC Brittany Gordon at Camp Nathan Smith in Kandahar region, southern Afghanistan October 19, 2012. Gordon was murdered together with another U.S. regular citizen and two others, after an Afghan NDS police blasted a suicide vest he was wearing in Kandahar region, a military officer said. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
U.S. Air Force Major Stacie Shafran carries her luggage to a loading paddock while waiting for her departure from Iraq at the former U.S. Sather Air Base near Baghdad, Iraq, December 14, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton