In December 2015, the Pentagon changed a rule to allow American women to serve for the first time ever in front-line ground combat troops. Women have fulfilled many military roles throughout history, including nursing; driving ambulances; handling administrative duties; working as mechanics; and serving in the WASPs, WACs, WAVES, and SPARS. More recently women are flying jets, conducting surveillance, commanding naval ships, and now fighting on the front lines. Yet no matter their official title, they have faced devastating discrimination—from lack of advancement, economic inequity, and inadequate veteran support, to sexual harassment and rape. Meet the women who have served their country courageously and who are standing up for fairness in the US military.
Discusses the deployment of women in the military to the Persian Gulf during Operations Desert Shield & Desert Storm.
This revised edition of Maj. Gen. Jeanne Holm's classic work on the history and role of women in the U.S. armed forces brings the reader up to date by covering...
This plan was rejected by the Army General Staff in 1926.4 A second study — called the Hughes Plan after its architect Major Everett S. Hughes — was based on the premise that women would inevitably play a role in future conflicts and ...
Written in two volumes this comprehensive guide covers a wide range of wars: The Thirty Years War, the French and Indian Wars in Northern America, the Anglo-Boer War, the First and Second World Wars, the Long March in China, and the Vietnam ...
In 2004, Erin Solaro went to Iraq to study American servicewomen—what they were doing, how well they were doing it, how they were faring in combat.
Today I host a podcast, Women of the Military, where I get to talk to women who have served in the military. But before the podcast, my interviews were back and forth on paper. I have put together these stories.
The Handbook of Psychosocial Interventions for Veterans and Service Members is an essential resource for private practice mental health clinicians and primary care physicians, as well as a useful adjunct for VA and DOD psychologists and ...
Van Devanter, Lynda, with Christopher Morgan. Home before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam. New York: Beaufort Books, 1983. One of the first books to come out in the wake of the Vietnam War, this is a story not just of Van ...
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After defining exactly what is meant by “war” and “combat,” this work presents historical and present-day views of the involvement of women in the military.