Some Marine Corps job titles are becoming gender-neutral

The Marine Corps is dropping gender from 19 job titles as it opens combat jobs to women.

The Defense Department announced that all combat jobs in the military would be open to women starting in January 2016.

Though the Marine Corps initially rebuked at the change, wanting to keep certain jobs closed.

The order came down from the Secretary of the Navy after months of reviewing.

Now at least 15 of the jobs are replacing the world "man" with Marine. Other changes include 'field artillery operations man" to "field artillery operations chief.

"Rifleman" and "mortarman" remain the same though because of those titles are stepped in Marine history.

An official announcement from the Marine Corps is expected to be released in the coming days.

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