The few remaining military jobs that have been off-limits to women-primarily ground combat jobs and special operations assignments-will be open to anyone who can qualify for them, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta announced in January. The move elicited mostly shrugs from within the services and Congress, since women have been in de facto combat assignments for many years.
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机译：国防部长莱昂·E·帕内塔（Leon E. Panetta）在一月份宣布，剩下的少数几类军人工作（主要是地面战斗工作和特种作战任务）将不向女性开放。由于妇女实际上已经从事了多年的战斗任务，因此这一举动大多引起了服务部门和国会的耸耸肩。
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