Americans are more likely to support than oppose allowing women to serve in combat roles, according to two polls released this weekend. Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Thursday that the Pentagon would lift a longstanding ban on women in combat, opening many new roles to women in the military by 2016.
A HuffPost/YouGov poll conducted Jan. 23-24 found 45 percent of Americans favor allowing women in the military to join combat units, another 21 percent said they neither favor nor oppose doing so and 26 percent say they are opposed to allowing women to serve in combat roles.
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