Background of Military Women
 Army
 Navy
 Air Force
 Marines
 Reflection
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Women have been serving in the military
since 1775, they nursed the ill &
wounded, laundered & mended
clothing and cooked for the troops in
camp on campaign.
 Women were thought to evoke sexual
emotions in the male servicemen and
that they couldn’t be trusted. Thus they
could only help in times of war and not
on a regular active duty basis.
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June 12, 1948
 Enabled women to serve as permanent,
regular members of the armed forces in the
Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
 Prior to this act women were only allowed
to serve in the military in times of war, there
were still some restrictions on women being
on Air Force and Navy vessels or aircrafts
that might engage in combat.
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October 1949
 Army regulation that stated women with
dependent children were ineligible to
serve in the military, & already enlisted
women who had children under the age
of 18 were then discharged.
 This was overturned by Congress in 1970s
stating that even if women had
dependent children that they could still
serve in the armed forces.
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July 1948 the first
enlisted women
entered the regular
Army & in December
of the same year the
first WAC officers
received Regular Army
appointments.
Currently women serve
in 91% of all Army
occupations and
make up 14% of the
Active Duty.
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1908 – Congress established the Navy Nurse
Corps, so women could help serve in times of
war
1917 – Secretary of the Navy announced that
the Navy would start enlisting females, but only
through the reserve.
1973 – The first time a women in the Navy
received her wings
1980 – First class of women graduate from the
U. S. Naval Academy.
2010 – The first crew of women were trained to
be able to be aboard Navy Vessels as Active
servicewomen.
Women can serve in all occupations in
the Navy except: SEAL or SWCC, since
those positions are strictly ground
combat – women haven’t found their
place in those ranks as of yet.
 http://www.youtube.com/user/UnitedSt
atesNavy?v=aGcthQE4lR4&lr=1
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Created in 1948 by President Truman to
bring women into limited roles in the
USAF.
 Put into place because of the Women’s
Armed Integration Act.
 Ended in 1976 when women were
accepted into the USAF on an equal
basis with men.
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Authorized on July 30, 1942
 Part of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve
 Provided women for the shore duty jobs,
so the men could be released for
combat duty.
 1918 – Secretary of the Navy allowed
women to enlist in the Marine Corps for
clerical duty.
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1943 – The Marine Corps Women’s
Reserve was officially established.
 June 12, 1948 – made women a
permanent part of the Regular Marine
Corps.
 Women serve in 93% of all occupational
fields and 6.2 of all corps strength is
women.
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The reason I chose this topic is because it has always
been interesting to me. I am very curious about how
women are treated differently then men and how
they are seen as less important as men. The more
and more I read it’s amazing how women are seen
as people who cannot be trusted because they will
seduce the men of their squad or of the other one.
Also women are not able to be in all occupations
included in the Armed Forces because they are
seem as weak and cannot do all that a man can
do. I hope that moving forward that men and
women will finally be seen as equals and that the
separation between the genders will be non-existent
and that it won’t even be something that we have to
study about in the future.