Showing posts with label women and military. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women and military. Show all posts

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Women and the Armed Forces

What jobs are women incapable of doing?
It is not many jobs, if any, that a man can do that a woman cannot do. Sometimes women doesn't receive the recognition and credit they deserve. Many have served their county with great honor.

Margaret A. Brewer (1930- )
The first women to achieve the rank of brigadier general in the US Marine Corps.

Kara S. Hultgreen (1965-1994)
The first of the two female combat jet pilots in the United States and the first female naval carrier-based fighter pilot.

Margarethe Cammermeyer (1942- )
A Norway native became a highly decorated Army nurse and sued the military as a result of being discharged for acknowledging that she was homosexual.

Elyse Mitchell (1919-1945)
The first known woman to die on US soil during World War II from an enemy bomb.

Is this a big misrepresentation of women in regard to the military?
Still some historians believe the old perception, that women affiliated with the military were prostitutes or women of a low reputation. And these old perceptions continued to haunt women in the today's military.

Sherian Cadorio (1940- )
As of 1990, she was the highest-ranking African-American woman in the military.

Florence Blanchfield (1882-1971)
The first woman commissioned in the US Army in 1947.

Marie Rossi (1969-1991)
One of the first women to fly a chinook helicopter in a combat zone during the Persian Gulf War.

Loretta Walsh (1898-1925)
First woman to enlist in the US Navy on 22 March 1917.