ACLU, military women's group sue Defense Department for Naval Academy records on female midshipmen

Advocates for military women are suing the Department of Defense for information about how the Naval Academy and the other military service academies recruit female students — part of a campaign, they say, to expose ongoing gender bias at the elite training grounds for the nation's officer corps.

"The military's academies largely remain boys' clubs," said Greg Jacob, the policy director at the Service Women's Action Network.

The legal dispute comes as the military approaches a January 2016 target date for integrating women into direct ground combat jobs. That was one of the last major roles that had been closed to female service members.

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