Women in combat: Pentagon lifts ban

The Pentagon is lifting its ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after generations of limits on their service, defense officials said Wednesday.

"Secretary Panetta's decision to lift the direct combat exclusion both opens the doors of opportunity to all women in the Armed Forces and eliminates the last vestige of government-sanctioned sex discrimination in the United States," said Nancy Duff Campbell of the National Women's Law Center. "Now if the best person for the job is a woman, she will no longer be barred from that job simply because of her gender."

Campbell joins The Daily Circuit on Thursday, Jan. 24 to dicuss the Pentagon's ban on women in combat.