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At Sternberg General Hospital in Manila, Philippines, life for military nurses before World War II was not exactly hardship. In the midst of beaches, palm groves and country-club-like sports facilities, U.S. Army and Navy nurses performed routine duties. Their second-in-command, Lt. Josephine “Mama Josie” Nesbit, relished the fun her “girls” had and made sure

This International Women’s Month, as we celebrate the achievements and contributions of women throughout history, we must remember to acknowledge the vital role of America’s women warriors.
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The Executive Order signed today strengthens the military justice system’s response to gender-based violence and delivers on key recommendations from the Independent Review Commission on Sexual Assault in the Military (IRC) that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin launched in March 2021.
Read the entire January 26, 2022 news release here.

A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is steaming toward the western Pacific on a routine deployment and, for the first time ever, it’s doing so with a female captain in charge.
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Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune

 For the first time, a female sailor has successfully completed the grueling 37-week training course to become a Naval Special Warfare combatant-craft crewman — the boat operators who transport Navy SEALs and conduct their own classified missions at sea.
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Source: Lolita C. Baldor,

Finona’s daughter, Julietta Faria, told NBC’s “Dateline” in 2019 that her mother had just returned to New Mexico following a 31-year career in the Army. The vet was readying to celebrate her nephew’s upcoming graduation when she vanished.
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Source: NY Post

In a statement, obtained by The Associated Press, Secretary Austin said he supports taking those sexual assaults and related crimes away from the chain of command, and let independent military lawyers handle them. The Pentagon has long resisted such a change, but Austin and other senior leaders are slowly acknowledging

“I am not sure how to prepare a 7 year old for losing his mom…in terms of how to prepare him for it, I don’t know how to.
I was absolutely willing to die for my country when I joined the Marine Corp. I just didn’t think it would be

An 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper killed during a training jump from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter at Fort Bragg, N.C., on Monday was a talented artillery forward observer and a gifted artist, Army officials said Tuesday.
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Source: Stripes.com

“Shannon was a warrior first, and she’d want to be remembered as such.”
Read Shannon’s story here.
Source: coffeeordie.com

President Joe Biden plans to nominate Coast Guard Vice Adm. Linda Fagan to the role of vice commandant, making her the first woman to achieve a fourth-star in the service, Defense News has learned.
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Source: Militarytimes.com

Throughout history, the only thing holding women back in the Service has been the rules put in place to prohibit their involvement.
Read about the evolution of women’s roles in the military here.
Source: spouselink.com

The two years after a sexual assault are a make-or-break time for military careers, according to a Rand Corp. study published Monday, as survivors are twice as likely to leave service during the first 28 months after an attack.
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Women have been serving in the Armed Forces in a variety of capacities since before women were even allowed to officially wear the uniform. African American women specifically, served in both gender and race-segregated units until President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, desegregating the military. These women continued to

Sgt. Sarah Field put on the Army uniform for her first time when she enlisted in June 2010, and 10 years later, she puts on that uniform with a little more pride as she is now the Idaho Army National Guard’s first certified female 19D cavalry scout instructor at the

A 1st Armored Division soldier at Fort Bliss, Texas has been charged with sexually assaulting three women over the past year, including a fellow soldier who was found dead a year on New Year’s Eve.
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Source: Military.com

Over the years that we have been engaged in the struggle against the forces of terrorism, more and more women have been enabled to serve in battlefield MOSs formerly only occupied by men. As a result, they too have paid the cost and endured the sacrifices that come with war

Capt. Dianna Wolfson becomes the 110th commander and the first female to lead the shipyard in its 253-year history.
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Dorothy “Dot” Cole, who enlisted as one of the earliest female Marine reservists in response to the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor and was widely celebrated around her birthday in September as the country’s oldest living Marine, died of a heart attack last Thursday at her daughter’s home in Kannapolis.