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9.WomenintheMilitary.pptWOMEN IN THE MILITARY
(Left) A Navy recruiting poster aimed at men during World War I mocks the idea of women sailors. (Center) A member of the Women’s Army Corps models her new winter uniform – striking a feminine pose while breaking tradition. (Right) Today’s military woman -- SPC Monica Brown, 82nd Airborne Division, in Afghanistan, 2008.
WARTIME AN OPPORTUNITY FOR U.S. WOMEN
(Left) A member of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in her outside uniform as worn during World War I. (Right) Two proud African-American members of the Navy WAVES during World War II.
MORE THAN 200,000 AMERICAN WOMEN ON ACTIVE DUTY TODAY
(Lower left) A female Army peacekeeper answers 5:00 A.M. reveille in Bosnia in the 1990s. (Lower right) Major Ruth Sonak, Company C, Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, in Baghdad. (Upper right) Sergeant Leigh Ann Hester decorated with the Silver Star for valor in combat in Iraq, March 205.
LEGENDARY WOMEN WARRIORS
Artistic representations from Ancient Greece of fierce Amazon warrior. (Below) Hercules kills an Amazon in combat.
ANCIENT FEMALE MILITARY LEADERS
(Upper left) Ahhotep I of Egypt, who fought the Hyskos in 1600 B.C. (Upper right) Cleopatra VII of Egypt, defeated by Octavian of Rome in 31 B.C. (Below) A statue in London commemorating Boudica, who led a revolt against Britain’s Roman occupiers in 60-61.
MEDIEVAL FEMALE GENERALS
(Left) Matilda of Tuscany, friend of the papacy, on her throne, flanked by attendants holding a law book and a sword. (Right) Eleanor of Aquitaine on horseback during the Second Crusade.
FRANCE’S JOAN OF ARC
TWO WOMEN MAN THE GUNS DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
(Below) An artist’s impression of Margaret Corbin, who was disabled by wounds at Fort Washington in 1776. (Upper and lower left) Two romanticized views of “Molly Pitcher” in action at Monmouth in 1778.
DEBORAH SAMPSON: CONTINENTAL SOLDIER
(Lower left) An actual portrait of Deborah Sampson painted after the American Revolution. Also seen here are two artistic impression of Deborah during her service with the light infantry company of the 4th Massachusetts Regiment.
MILITARY NURSING BECOMES WOMEN’S WORK DURING THE CIVIL WAR
THE U.S. SANITARY COMMISSION
Many Northern women joined the U.S. Sanitary Commission knitting socks, sewing shirts, and holding fairs to raise money to send Union soldiers various comforts from home.
WOMEN SOLDIERS, 1861-65
(Left) Private “Albert” Cashire fought with the 95th Illinois Infantry at Vicksburg. (Center) Frances Clalin Clayton rode with a Union cavalry regiment raised in Missouri. (Right) From the memoir of a Confederate woman who claimed she wore false whiskers and rose to the rank of lieutenant.
ARMY NURSES IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
WOMEN NURSES BECOME A PERMANENT FIXTURE IN THE AMERICAN MILITARY
The “Sacred Twenty,” the first female nurses appointed by the U.S. Navy in peacetime, 1908.
THE SEA SERVICES RECRUIT FEMALE “YEOMEN”
(Upper left) A bevvy of Navy “Yeomanettes” surround a delighted sailor at a New York club. (Lower left) Yeoman First Class (F) Joy Bright of the U.S. Navy, February 1918. (Below) “Marinettes” hang recruiting posters for male Marines in New York City, 1918.
WOMEN’S WORK IN THE GREAT WAR, 1917-18
(Upper right) A Yeoman (F) secretary working for Captain George R. Slocum in his office at Puget Sound, Washington. (Lower right) A Navy nurse assists with the irrigating and dressing of a sailor’s wounds at the Naval Hospital, New Orleans. (Below) Rear Admiral Victor Blue inspects “Yeomanettes” in Washington, D.C.
WITH THE ARMY, 1917-18
(Below) Lois Roth Campbell, Army Nurse Corps. (Right) A Red Cross nurse and an Army nurse in her blue overcoat with an Army doctor.
AN ENDURING PRESENCE
Three Army nurses, all of them second lieutenants, doing laboratory work.
A GLOBAL MISSION, 1941-45
Army nurses ply their merciful trade in North Africa (upper left), under fire at Anzio (lower left), and on Leyte in the Philippines (right).
A GLOBAL MISSION
A group of Navy nurses arrive at staff a hospital at Noumea in the Pacific.
THE BIRTH OF THE WOMEN’S ARMY CORPS (WACS)
(Lower left) Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby, the first director of the Women’s Army Corps. (Upper right) An Army recruiter helps two women register to join the WACS. (Lower right) A WAC practices her salute while training at Fort Des Moines.
WACS – HOME FRONT TO BATTLE FRONT
(Upper left) Conducting a training class at Fort Des Moines. (Lower left) Staffing a PX at a stateside base. (Upper right) A WAC air controller with the Army Air Forces. (Lower right) A WAC camp in Europe.
THE NAVY RECRUITS 90,000 WAVES
(Upper left) Lieutenant Commander Mildred McAfee, the firest director of the Navy’s Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. (Lower left) First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt inspects WAVE training class at Smith College. Recruiting poster art shows a proud mother with her WAVE daughter.
A WIDE VARIETY OF JOBS
(Upper right) A WAVE working as a telephone operation at a stateside base, a job held by many women in the civilian world. (Below) A WAVE searching as an observer for Navy men training to become turret gunners on large aircraft. (Lower right) A WAVE radio operator, a job that required intense training, manual dexterity, and acute hearing.
THE MARINES CALLED THEM “BAMS”
(Below) Members of the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve practice close-order drill. (Upper right) Pfc. Josephine Rice conducts a class on flexible guns. (Lower right) Women Marines move the tail of an airplane.
WOMEN REMAIN IN UNIFORM
(Upper right) A WAVE recruiting poster. (Lower right) Mildred McAfree at ceremonies marking the WAVES’ twentieth anniversary in 1962. (Below) A recruiter’s vision of a woman Marine.
NEW ROLES AND MISSIONS
(Upper left) A female MP in Kosovo, 2000. (Upper right) A woman soldier in the 24th Infantry Division in Operation DESERT STORM, 1991. (Lower left) A female technician at work with two males soldiers in Panama (1986). (Lower right) A fuel handler for the air cavalry during the First Gulf War, 1991.
WOMEN IN THE LINE OF FIRE
(Below) Women have flown combat aircraft since 1993. (Upper right) A female soldier provides security in Iraq, 2006. (Lower right) The first all-female C-130 crew to fly a combat mission.
WOMEN AND COMBAT/THE LINES BLUR
Two female American soldiers searching Iraqi women during a counterinsurgency patrol in an urban area.
WOMEN AND COMBAT/THE LINES BLUR
A female soldier fords a creek while on patrol in Afghanistan.
SHOULD WOMEN SERVE IN COMBAT WITH MEN?
LIFTING THE BAN
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta after signing the memorandum lifting the ban on women serving in American combat units, January 24, 2013.
A REVOLUTION IN THE AMERICAN MILITARY
(Upper right) Rachel Washburn, a former Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader who served as an Army lieutenant in Afghanistan. (Lower right) Female American soldiers equipped with head scarves to avoid inciting local sensibilities while on patrol in Afghanistan. (Below) Two of the first three female Marines to pass the Marine Corps combat training course at Camp Geiger, North Carolina, November 21, 2013.
The Marine Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force undergoes assessment training, 2014-15.
THE FIRST TWO FEMALE ARMY RANGER SCHOOL GRADUATES
(Left) Captain Kristen Griest and (right) First Lieutenant Shaye Lynne Haver.
RUMORS OF DILUTED STANDARDS
(Below) Lieutenant Haver doubletimes in a full pack. (Upper right) Captain Griest runs the obstacle course. (Lower right) Griest carries a male comrade.
DECEMBER 2, 2015: THE DAM BURSTS
Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter (upper left) announced that all combat roles in the American military would now be open to women.
THE SCOURGE OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
The Sexual Assault Plague Strikes the USMC’s Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force
Marines belonging to the GCLITF gather for a moment of silence.
THE MILITARY’S INABILITY TO FIND A CURE PROMPTS A POLITICAL SOLUTION
(Below) Senator Kirstein Gillibrand (Democrat-New York) has become the leading champion of military justice reform to curb the scourge of sexual assault.
A PERMANENT PRESENCE
A PERMANENT PRESENCE
Female drill instructors, U.S. Marine Corps, early 2013.
