ms. penrod said. the exception of policy, we took, the marines come in with a number at officer and nco. the army came in with a similar request. so the service secretary maid a request for exception to that policy. they picked positions where women have already been serving. i'll give you an example. one example is a medical nco. women have been serving as medical ncos, that has been an open specialty for women for quite some time. now we're taking a woman who is already experienced in that at the nco and officer level and assigning them according to the exception of policy to an infantry battalion. experience of those bim and others in specialties like that generally in the support area will inform future policy changes. i think that's the key point the secretary has made, is that this is the beginning, not the end. we'll start with women in specialties they've already specialties they've already been serving in, they're already experienced and we put them in an infantry battalion, i they'll help us

ms. penrod said will be open fairly immediately in terms of normal assignment. those are the ones for exception to policy. because there's already women out there in the army and infantry doing these specialties, just they're in a different place. on the co-location, we're opening up new specialties to women. we have no women tank mechanics out there so we have to recruit them. from the taping base, from those new positions being recruited and training, and for sure we would on those positions bei being -- we'll go to base x, performs as an intel officer and then they'll perform there locally. so more on the data. >> time for a few more questions. >> at one point in this report you talk about the -- part of the point of the study as craig when do you hope to have some kind of answer on things like special operations and infantry positions? again, we're opening up over 1,000 positions below brigade level. individuals will have to serve in those assignments and assess how that -- the individuals perform and also the process of, you still have the privacy issues th

ms. penrod said. >> we took the question of services on that. marines came in with the number of military occupation specialty is in the army came in with similar requests and so the service secretaries made a request for exception to that policy. they picked positions for women have dirty been served. now, i look at the one next info. one is a medical and ceo. women have been serving as medical ncos. that has been an open specialty women for quite some time. so now we take a women re: experienced at the nco and officer level and assigning them according to the exception of piracy and experience of those women and others in specialties like that will inform future policy changes and that is the key point the secretary is made if it is the beginning not the end. we will start to with women in specialties they verity experienced. the feminine infantry battalion and the experiences they give us back, assessments, feedback and so forth will help us down in the long-term make decisions that would affect other changes. >> i just want to clarify someth