Service organizations for women veterans
The military may seem like the domain of men, but women veterans make up an important part of our history. In fact, women have served in every conflict since the…
The Artsakh War brought about Armenia’s first all-women military unit
Armenia and Artsakh, the previously self-determined independent country bordering Armenia with a majority Armenian population, spent the better half of fall 2020 at war with neighboring Azerbaijan and Turkey. The…
4 ways America empowered women in order to win WWII
During WWII, the United States encouraged and empowered women to man the factories and even join the fight in non-combat roles. The American vision was that we were all in…
How the first Army females to see combat in Iraq by-stepped regulations to fight along Marines
In 2013, the ban that kept women out of combat was lifted, effectively allowing anyone to join fighting forces in the United States. It’s worth noting that many women had…
The Army’s first black female three-star grew up an orphan
Two months ago Nadja Y. West became the Army’s first black surgeon general, and on Feb. 9 she will be promoted to lieutenant general, the first female U.S. Military Academy graduate as well as the first African-American woman to hold that ran…
6 badass women in the military
Amongst the backdrop of our relatively male-dominated world, women have often taken supporting roles. This is especially true in male-dominated fields like the military. Despite the perception that women weren’t…
The Navy initially denied Grace Hopper’s enlistment. Then she revolutionized computers.
Grace Hopper, WAVE mathematician, assigned to Harvard University to work on the computation project with a Mark I computer, was instrumental in ushering in the computer age. Hopper went on to become a Rear Admiral, held a Ph.D. from Yale, and tried …
Women in the military: Paving the way and shooting for the stars… literally
There are few things I love more than seeing badass women breaking barriers and proving to the world that powerful women are a force t…
Women’s Initiative Team : Taking initiative, breaking barriers
Thousands of women across the Air Force provided feedback to the Women’s Initiative Team, playing a pivotal role in the first women’s hair policy change in 70 years. On February…
America’s ‘most decorated woman’ fought from the Philippines to Korea
Ruby Bradley was an Army combat nurse on Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese bombed the island of Luzon in the Philippines. Bradley survived the attacks, days on the run, years as a prisoner of war, and years as one of the top combat nurses treating and…