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Women's Armed Services Integration Act (Pub. L. 80–625, 62 Stat. 356, enacted June 12, 1948) is a United States law that enabled women to serve as permanent, regular members of the armed forces in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the recently formed Air Force. Prior to this act, women, with the exception of nurses, served in the military ...
After the demobilization of the Army of the United States in 1946, the United States Army was divided into the Regular Army (RA) and the Army Reserve (USAR). During the Korean War, the Army of the United States was reinstated but had only enlisted draftees. Officers after this point held Regular Army rank only, but could hold an additional ...
The U.S. Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) allows Army and Navy women to join their ranks. [1] Publication Z-116 about equal rights and opportunities for women in the Navy is written and published by the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt. [1]
Women worked as nurses for the Union Navy during the American Civil War.In 1890, Ann Bradford Stokes, who during the American Civil War had worked as a nurse on the navy hospital ship USS Red Rover, where she assisted Sisters of the Holy Cross, was granted a pension of $12 a month, making her the first American woman to receive a pension for her own service in the military.
During World War II, over 350,000 women served in the United States Armed Forces as members of the Army's Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (later renamed the Women's Army Corps), the Navy's WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) and the Marine Corps' Women's Reserve. [27] [28] Of these, 432 were killed and 88 were taken prisoner. [27]
female members of the Women Army Corps F: field clerks during the First World War K: female reserve and specialist officers with service numbers 100 001 and higher L: enlisted members of the Women's Army Corps: N: female nurse officers O: officers of the Regular Army R: enlisted personnel with service #s from 1 to 5 999 999 upon reenlistment of ...
For the two programs, Army and Navy, to meet in the conference title game, “there is a lot of mileage left,” Navy athletic director Chet Gladchuk said as a reminder.
Serving Proudly: A history of Women in the U.S. Navy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-317-6. Fact filled, extensively researched account of the evolution of the roles of women in the United States Navy, treating the parallel and entertwined paths of the Navy Nurse Corps and the WAVES.