Properly equipping women for combat roles will ‘take some time,’ says the military’s top general
By: Tara Copp   18 hours ago
As more women join combat-coded units, they are finding that there’s not enough properly-fitted equipment or armor there to support them, defense appropriators told Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford Wednesday.
Since 2016, women have been able to join all combat units, and in the Army alone, more than 600 have joined since that ban was lifted.
But the gear they need to do their jobs hasn’t kept up, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, told Dunford and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/05/09/dunford-fix-to-womens-combat-gear-shortages-will-take-some-time/
