Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: It's been an important week for the military. The Pentagon paved the way for women to officially serve in ground combat jobs. The move opens some 200,000 positions to women service members. So we sent Blake Farmer of member station WPLN to Fort Campbell, Ky., to gauge reaction.BLAKE FARMER, BYLINE: Walk into Stacey Hopwood's civilian office, and it feels a bit like a Marine Corps museum.STACEY HOPWOOD: Because I'm proud of it (laughter). We have a saying - once a Marine, always a Marine.FARMER: Hopwood's retired and now helps the masses of veterans in the area sign up for services. She was a military police officer. She points to a unit photo from the first Gulf War era in which her cropped black hair is slicked back to meet Marine hairstyle regulations. A superior nagged her every day.HOPWOOD: People used to kid me that I could get caught in a tornado and my hair wouldn't move. That just became, like, I am not ever going to
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