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Two U.S. Marine Corps officers and a U.S. Coast Guard captain talked about their personal experiences as women in the armed services in a panel discussion titled, “Leading Military Women:…

Major Mary Jennings Hegar talked about her book Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front, in which she talks about her tours in Afghanistan with…

Don Benton talked about the mission of the Selective Service and the Pentagon’s recommendation to expand registration to include women.

The Defense Advisory Committee investigating sexual assault in the armed forces held a public meeting. In this portion a former Air Force senior airman talked about being raped and beaten…

Military attorneys from the five armed service branches spoke at a forum examining sexual assault in the military. They discussed their experiences representing clients of sexual assault and…

Representatives of each military service branch described their expedited transfer polices for service members who report sexual misconduct. They spoke before he 16-member Defense Advisory…

Former U.S. Marine Corps officer Tracy Crow and former U.S. Navy officer Jerri Bell talked about their book It’s My Country Too: Women’s Military Stories from the American Revolution to…

Elizabeth Cobbs talked about the women who served overseas as telephone operators in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War I. She also spoke about how their service affected the…

U.S. Coast Guard Senior Petty Officer Mary Cunningham (Retired) and U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Major Angela Maness talked about their personal experiences as women trailblazers in the…

This War Department film documented how women helped the war effort. In the film, an actor portraying Adolf Hitler after a fictional 1944 surrender realizes that the “Hidden Army” of…

Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and John McCain (R-AZ) spoke about a measure in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act that would include women in selective service.

Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James talked about the Air Force and wider military issues. Topics included Congress’s defense policy debates, actions by China and the U.S. in the South…

Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa delivered the weekly Republican address. She gave a Memorial Day tribute to the military and talked about legislation to honor the Women Airforce Service Pilots…

Military and foreign policy experts talked about the challenges and benefits of integrating women into the armed forces. Juliet Beyler said no quota exists for the number of women in combat…

Psychologists, researchers, and Defense Department officials talked about various approaches to dealing with sexual assault in the military.

Current and former military officers debated the effects the Department of Defense lifting of all restrictions on women serving in combat roles. Topics included military standards,…

House members passed a bill unanimously (385-0) to let female World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) be interred in Arlington Cemetery. A law passed in 1977 allows women who served…

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon spoke via video link from Los Angeles about the implementation of the U.S. military’s integration of women into combat roles, which began that same day. She is the author of…

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter talked about the Pentagon’s budget and priorities. He outlined increases in spending to address global challenges involving Russian aggression, Iranian influence…

Helen Thorpe talked about her book, Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War, about three women who joined the Indiana National Guard and were deployed to Iraq and…