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This is a 5 page paper discussing the role of women in the military and the restrictions on them from combat positions. Recent developments in occupations available to women in the military have led to an increase in women in the roles of aviation, surface warfare, air traffic control and field artillery. However, because of the restrictions which still apply to certain positions, women cannot serve in positions which are considered more dangerous because of their ‘direct ground combat’ component.
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control and field artillery. However, because of the restrictions which still apply to certain positions, women cannot serve in positions which are considered more dangerous because of their direct ground
combat component. In July of 1994, the U.S. Department of Defence opened up traditional military occupational specialties (MOSs) to women in the Army.
While the policy does open some new opportunities for women in military services, the policy falls short of total integration (Geraci, 1995). These new policies allowed for women to fly
combat aircraft, serve on combat ships and serve in more combat-related occupations but as of September of 1998, 90% of the armed services career fields were open to women and
80% of the 1,425,000 positions were open to women. The major areas still remaining closed to women include infantry, armor, special forces/SEAL and submarine warfare areas. All of these areas,
except submarine warfare, are associated with ground combat (Rabkin, 1999). The relatively new term "direct ground combat" was defined as "engaging an enemy
on the ground with individual or crew served weapons, while being exposed to hostile fire and to a high probability of direct physical contact with the hostile forces personnel" (Geraci,
1995). These restriction of women from the areas of direct ground combat has left 27% of the positions available in the Army still off limits to women despite the work
of the former Secretary of Defence Les Aspin who feels that women should not be barred from military positions simply based on the premise that they may be too dangerous
(Geraci, 1995). While several factions of the military forces believe that women should have the right to all military position, some areas are
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