双语新闻：美国国防部将取消不准女兵执行战斗任务的禁令 Pentagon to Lift Ban on Combat Duty for Women

24 January, 2013

一名五角大楼高级官员表示，美国国防部长帕内塔将取消军中女兵不得参与战斗的禁令。

这名官员说，帕内塔将在星期四正式宣布取消这一禁令。这位官员还说，这是帕内塔自2011年担任国防部长后一直想要做的事情。帕内塔在过去两年中为女性提供了5万个军中的工作机会。

这位官员表示，帕内塔要军中各首长到5月时拟出执行这项新政策的计划。这项新政策将为美国陆军、海军、空军、海军陆战队以及海岸警卫队的所有军中女性提供数千个在前线的战斗职位。

在美国军队，担任战斗职位一向对军人升迁至关重要。长期以来，在美国军队服役的女性表示由于没有重视她们实际的服务，而在升迁问题上受到不公平的压制。

军中女性在未来还可能被排除在某些战斗任务外，而且将必须为每项任务达到严格的体能标准。美国国防部官员表示，美国各军种首长将有3年的时间来研究这个问题。

A top Pentagon official says U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is lifting the ban that keeps women from combat duty in the military.

The official says Panetta will make a formal announcement Thursday, adding that this is something Panetta has wanted to do since becoming defense chief in 2011. He already has opened 50,000 military jobs to women in the last two years.

The official says Panetta is giving military chiefs until May to draw up plans for implementing the new policy, which could open thousands of frontline combat positions to women in all U.S. military services -- Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard.

In the military, serving in combat positions remains key to career advancement. Women have long said that by not recognizing their real service, the military has unfairly held them back.

Women still may be excluded from some combat jobs in the future and will have to meet strict physical requirements for every job. The Pentagon official says the chiefs of U.S. military services will have three years to study that issue.