Commission to recommend lifting military ban on women in combat

Women should be allowed to serve in combat roles during wartime, according to a government commission made up of retired and current officers.

The nonpartisan Military Leadership Diversity Commission says women are falling behind their male peers in rank because they are not officially serving on the front lines, according to the Christian Science Monitor. Women, who make up 14 percent of the armed services, may be formally unattached to combat units right now, seeing front-line action without the credit.

The group is presenting its findings to Congress this spring.

(Army Spc. Monica Brown receives a Silver Star from then Vice President Dick Cheney in 2007: AP.)