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The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Northern California and the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP are representing four servicewomen and the Service Women's Action Network in challenging the Defense Department's longstanding policy and practice barring women from thousands of ground combat positions, military occupational specialties, and schools, simply because they are women.