Combat News
Expanded Opportunities for Women in Combat Roles Strengthen Armed Forces
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 | Category: Combat - National
The Department of Labor Women's Bureau recognized the significance of Secretary of Defense Carter's decision to open 100% of military occupations to servicewomen who qualify and meet specific standards. This change opens 52 occupations and opens pipelines to the most senior leadership jobs. In 2014, 15% of the active duty force was women with about 7 percent serving in the highest ranks of the officer corps. The Bureau plans to continue to work towards removing artificial barriers to women’s success, cultivating respectful workplace cultures with flexibility policies, and recruiting, retaining, and promoting women "based on their raw talent alone."
PRLI Set to Lead Camp Resilience for Women Veterans in the Area
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 | Category: Combat - New Hampshire
Camp Resilience, of the Lakes Region, New Hampshire, non-profit Patriot Resilient Leader Institute plans to conduct its second all-female veterans' session in Gilford next week. PRLI founder and retired Army veteran Kurt Webber stated that their experience has been that women veterans can benefit greatly from sharing experiences with other women veterans in a single-sex environment.
Project Diane: Integrating Military Women in Combat Roles
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 | Category: Combat - National
The Women's Foundation of Greater Kansas City, with funding from The Army Research Institute, researched the potential benefits and barriers of gender integration of Special Forces (Green Berets). They found a "great deal of resistance to gender integration in the military" linked to what they referred to as "gender oblivion."
Time to Abolish the Selective Service
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 | Category: Combat - National
Benjamin Powell, PhD, is the director of the Free Market Institute and professor of economics in the Rawls College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University believes "The time is ripe to abolish Selective Service. An all-volunteer force is more efficient, cheaper, and more consistent with the principles of a free society."
Lewis Diuguid: Endless War Keeps Grip On the U.S.
Monday, January 4, 2016 | Category: Combat - National
Mr. Diuguid calls for a future characterized by lasting peace. He notes that 25 of his 60 years the U.S. has been engaged in costly wars consuming too many lives and resources. The U.S. has been in Afghanistan for 15 years and has a defense budget of $610 billion, $9 billion more than China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, France, the United Kingdom, India and Germany combined. The U.S. is war weary and its servicemembers come home with lingering health challenges that the Department of Veterans Affairs doesn't always meet.
Less Consideration for Female Veterans
Sunday, December 27, 2015 | Category: Combat - Texas
An Operation Iraqi Freedom female Marine veteran shares her interview experience, concluding that her military service was less valued than her male peers. She believes that discrimination contributes to why women veterans do not attend veteran events.
Women and The Military Prepare for Combat
Wednesday, December 23, 2015 | Category: Combat - National
All the military Services must submit plans to integrate women into combat positions by January 1, 2016 with over 220,000 positions opened by April 2016. Lieutenant General Barno commanded a brigade including hundreds of women. He tells The Takeaway that the armed forces will only improve by including women as long as the services maintain their high standards for combat roles.
Pentagon's Women-in-Combat Push Faces Chilly Headwinds
Wednesday, December 23, 2015 | Category: Combat - National
The Pentagon, under Secretary of Defense Carter's leadership, must open all military occupations to women beginning in 2016. Challenges are expected, particularly within the special operation forces units.
What the Female Veterans in Congress Think About Women in Combat
Friday, December 4, 2015 | Category: Combat - National
The four women currently serving in Congress, one senator and three representatives, share their positions on Secretary of Defense Carter's announcement that alll military occupations, combat and noncombat, would be open to women in 2016. The decision came after a two-year review of jobs in the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Special Operations Command that were only open to men.
All Combat Roles Now Open to Women, Defense Secretary Says
Thursday, December 3, 2015 | Category: Combat - National
On December 3, 2015, Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter announced that the Pentagon would open all combat occupations to women. This historic change to the U.S. military overturned the 1994 Pentagon rule that restricted women from artillery, armor, infantry and other combat roles in all of the Services. In reality over the past 14 years, military women often found themselves in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.