Artillery Positions Now Open To Women
From Military Times: The March 4 directive opens to women approximately 1,900 area-of-concentration 13A Field Artillery officer positions in the active component, and 1,700 in the Guard and Reserve.
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Not Many Women Want Combat Jobs In Military
From Military Times: Less than 8 percent of Army women who responded to the survey said they wanted a combat job. Of those, an overwhelming number said they’d like to be a Night Stalker — a member of the elite special operations helicopter crews who perhaps are best known for flying the Navy SEALS into Osama bin Laden’s compound in 2011.
70th Birthday For Female Marines
From Jarhead via Twitter Today is the 70th birthday of the female Marines. Happy birthday, wookies.
National Guard Member in Miss America Pageant
From The Washington Times: During Sunday’s Miss America pageant, televised September 15 at 9 p.m. on CBS, Vail will be the first contestant not to cover her tattoos during the bathing suit and evening gown portion of the competition. Vail’s body art is not subtle. The serenity prayer is tattooed on her right side, and covers the area from just under her arm all the way down to her hip…
Ultimate Sacrafice by Women Agents
From the FBI: in 1994, when a gunman began shooting in a squad room at the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., Martha Dixon Martinez apparently chose to confront the attacker rather then retreat. She and fellow Special Agent Michael John Miller were killed in the exchange, along with a D.C. police officer. Robin L. Ahrens was killed in Phoenix during an operation to arrest an armed robber.
First Women Wash Out of Marine Combat Training
From Battleland: The second female Marine officer has washed out of the corps’ infantry-officer training, Marine Corps Times reports. That means both women – along with nearly 30 of 107 men – have failed to make it through the grueling 13-week course.
FBI: Women Agents Reflect on 40 Years
In New Interviews, Women Agents Reflect on 40 Years
Celebrating FBI Women Special Agents
Celebrating Women Special Agents, Part 5 Women agents past and present talk about their place among four decades of pioneers. Details
40 Years of Women Special Agents: Part 2
Celebrating 40 Years of Women Special Agents, Part 2 July 17, 2012 They were known as the nun and the Marine. The respective backgrounds of Joanne Pierce Misko and Susan Roley Malone could not have been more dissimilar. But 40 years ago, on July 17, 1972, the two women were drawn together by a shared goal—to become FBI special agents.