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Campbell, D'Ann. "Women in Combat: The World War Two Experience in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union", Journal of Military History 57 (April 1993), 301–323 online and in JSTOR 2944060; Campbell, D'Ann. "The women of World War II." in A Companion to World War II ed. by Thomas W. Zeiler(2013) 2:717–738. online
The Combat Exclusion Law of the United States banning women from warships is lifted. [99] LT Monyee Kazek and LT Jody Turner became the first female EOs of a Coast Guard cutter. [18] CDR Rosemary Bryant Mariner became the first woman screened for command of an aviation unit in the U.S. Navy. [7]
The first Riverine Combat Skills Course (RCS) class in the United States to include women graduated in 2012. The women were: Chief Engineman Patricia Cooper, Master-at-Arms 2nd Class Brittney Hellwig, Master-at-Arms Seaman Brianna Tran, and Master-at-Arms Seaman Angela Evans. [62]
As Carter noted in 2018 explaining his decision to eliminate gender-based restrictions, more than 300,000 women served in combat environments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The process of integrating women into combat units was a gradual one that began in 1993, when Defense Secretary Les Aspin issued an order that allowed women to fly fighter jets and bomber aircraft ...
Campbell, D'Ann. "Women in Combat: The World War Two Experience in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union" Journal of Military History (April 1993), 57:301-323. online edition JSTOR 2944060; Cottam, K. Jean Soviet Airwomen in Combat in World War II (Manhattan, KS: Military Affairs/Aerospace Historian Publishing, 1983)
Kayla Williams, who served in combat foot patrols with the infantry during her deployment to Iraq, was part of the push to rescind policies excluding women from combat. "To see us rehashing the ...
The Woman's Army Auxiliary Corps was established in the United States in 1942. However, political pressures stalled attempts to create more roles for women in the American Armed Forces. Women saw combat during World War II, first as nurses in the Pearl Harbor attacks on December 7, 1941.