Petula Dvorak: Cleared for combat 10 years ago, women still fight for change in military
She marched 12 miles with the same rucksack the men carried. She wriggled beneath knee-high barbed wire through the infamous muddy worm pit. The mountaineering phase was as frigid for her as it was for the men in Ranger School that winter.Army Capt.
“These women have defied all of the naysayers,” said Col. Ellen Haring, one of two Army Reserve officers who filed a lawsuit against the Defense Department and the Army for barring women from certain combat units and other jobs on the basis of their gender just a few months before the Pentagon lifted the ban. “Not only do many women — like men — want combat jobs, but they are excelling in these roles.
“I remember they asked all the men to leave — they were trying so hard — and one of them read from an index card on how to keep ourselves clean in the field and that it’s okay to drink cranberry juice for a [urinary tract infection],” she said. “In the room, there was a collective 300 years of experience in female hygiene, and he was reading from an index card.”
Her ruck weight, she jokes, was heavier than her male peers’: “I had everything they had, plus 120 tampons.” Anne Coughlin, a law professor at the University of Virginia who helped push the legal argument for women in combat, worries about the consequences for women who may be losing control of their own bodies in the land they are willing to defend with their lives.,” Coughlin said. “What would the position of the military be on giving women access to health care and birth control? … It may depend on what state you’re living in, what kind of reproductive care you have access to.
And like those barrier-breaking women who earned their law degrees, then couldn’t get hired at law firms , they’re not really being hired for the jobs they trained for.Over the dozen years before the historic shift in January 2013, about 283,000 women had deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. More than 800 were injured and 139 were killed. One of them was 1st Lt.
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