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Serving, dying from the first, US women have filled military roles marked by battlefield needs

by: CONNIE CASS , Associated Press

Updated: January 25, 2013 - 4:31 PM

WASHINGTON - American women have served and died on the nation's battlefields from the first. They were nurses and cooks, spies and couriers in the Revolutionary War. Some disguised themselves as men to fight for the Union or the Confederacy. Yet the U.S. military's official acceptance of women in combat took more than two centuries.

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Serving, dying from the first, US women have filled military roles marked by battlefield needs

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