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Hacker, Barton C. "Women and Military Institutions in Early Modern Europe: A Reconnaissance," Signs (1981), v. 6 pp. 643–671. Illston, James Michael. ' An Entirely Masculine Activity'? Women and War in the High and Late Middle Ages Reconsidered (MA thesis, University of Canterbury, 2009) full text online, with detailed review of the literature
1920: A provision of the Army Reorganization Act grants U.S. military nurses the status of officers, with "relative rank" from second lieutenant to major (but not full rights and privileges). U.S. nurses (all women) serve aboard the first U.S. ship built as a floating hospital, the USS Relief (AH-1). [24]
The Women at Sea (WAS) Distribution and Assignment Working Group was established in the U.S. Navy. [5] The Army National Guard promoted the first woman to major general. [1] First woman in the U.S. Coast Guard promoted to Flag Officer: RADM Vivien Crea. [6] First woman in the U.S. Coast Guard promoted to Reserve RADM: Mary P. O'Donnell, USCGR. [3]
1950-1953: (): Women who were in the Reserves were recalled to active duty.More than 500 Army nurses served in various areas and theaters of the war. [1] [2]Captain Lillian Kinkella Keil, USAF, who had already made 250 evacuation flights (23 of which were transatlantic) during World War II, made 175 evacuation flights during the Korean War.
The U.S. Labor Department began a website focused on women military veterans. [124] Sgt. Maj. Angela M. Maness took the reins of the "Oldest Post of the [U.S. Marine] Corps" as the new sergeant major of Marine Barracks Washington. She is the first woman in history to hold this billet at the Barracks. [125]
The U.S. Navy included women nurses at its hospitals for the first time in its history. [18] 1812. During the War of 1812 Mary Marshall and Mary Allen worked as nurses for U.S. Commodore Stephen Decatur on the United States. [19] 1819
Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi: How America's most powerful women look to make history again. Sarah D. Wire, Michael Collins and Susan Page, USA TODAY. Updated August 18, 2024 at 6:56 PM.
On July 7, 1948, Kay Langdon, Wilma Marchal, Edna Young, Frances Devaney, Doris Robertson, and Ruth Flora becomes the first six enlisted women to be sworn into the regular U.S. Navy. Esther Blake was the first woman to enlist in the regular U.S. Air Force; she enlisted in the first minute of the first hour of the first day regular Air Force ...