Woman in the Military
Although their numbers are still disappointingly small, military women now serve with distinction in every service. The women who served in Operation Desert Storm flew planes into enemy territory, fired weapons, commanded combat support units, ferried troops in to the combat zone and carried them fuel and supplies. At the end of the war, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney applauded the women's performance: "They did a bang up job....They were every bit as professional as their male colleagues." He also noted that he "wouldn't be at all surprised to see the role of women in combat expanded in the year ahead." Yet, more than a decade later, women are still prohibited from direct combat. Recently, Jessica Lynch's actions on the battlefield in Iraq are once again fueling the debate over the role of women in the military. Many are in favor of letting women join men assigned to the frontlines.
As of March 31, 2001, women in the military made up approximately fifteen percent of the total active force. The Air Force has the highest percentage of women and the Marine Corps the lowest as shown in the following table.
Service and rank
Number of women
Women as a percentage of total personnel
Total DOD forces2
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Air Force
Coast Guard
1. Officers include warrant officers.
2. Defense Department (DOD) forces do not include Coast Guard.
Source: U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Manpower Data Center, unpublished data, March 30, 2001.
Presently, ninety-two percent of all military specialties are open to women. Positions closed to women are in areas of direct combat defined as well forward on the battlefield where there is a high probably of physical combat. Thus, women are excluded from the infantry and Special Forces, two areas the offer the greatest opportunity for rapid advancement.
In addition, there have been recent moves to ban women from the new reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition teams.
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