women in combat

“What inspires me as a leader is just the men and women that serve alongside me."

"When you have four different branches each doing their own thing, there's overlap and there's going to be waste."

The main goal of the 588th was to disorient and sleep deprive the enemy, and it became clear they were successful.

18-year-old Maria Daume’s path to the yellow footprints of Parris Island, South Carolina, which will culminate in her graduation on Jan. 13 before later heading off to the Marine Corps’ School of Infantry, began years ago in a prison in Siberia, Russia, where she was born.

A female National Guard soldier has successfully graduated from Army Special Forces training and is joining the elite Green Berets for the first time in U.S. military history

Boeing Co's communications chief Niel Golightly abruptly resigned on Thursday.

As an engineer, Macander had been in war zones, but not in a division combat job. Still, her earlier roles put her into a position to more quickly rise through the ranks.

A female National Guard soldier has successfully completed the final stage of the Army's Special Forces Qualification Course (Q Course), but she's not a Green Beret yet

Currently, 601 women are in the process of entering the infantry career field and 568 are joining the armor career field, according to the Army

Here's how well each service does at recruiting women into the ranks

A planned independent, in-depth assessment of the Marine Corps' historically gender-segregated boot camp training model hasn't started yet — because no one has volunteered to conduct it

"Unless there is a groundswell of public indignation against this effort, it is very likely to happen within the next year."

A commission formed by Congress to assess military and national service is calling for women to be included in selective service registration

A female Air Force officer has completed a rigorous special warfare course and will move on to the next program within the Special Tactics Officer training pipeline, making her the first woman to advance this far within battlefield officer specialty training

A Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton became the first woman to graduate from the Corps' Howitzer Section Chief Course this month, taking on a combat artillery leadership role once reserved for men

A female National Guard soldier is set to become the first to join the Green Berets

Three enlisted women are now in the training pipeline to become special warfare combatant-craft crewmen, small-boat operators frequently teamed with Navy SEALs for infiltration and exfiltration missions

The final conference version of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act includes a provision that would require the service to integrate both its East Coast and West Coast entry-level training facilities within the next eight years

"Females are now represented in every previously-restricted occupational field"

It may take up to five years to finalize the standards for the Army Combat Fitness Test as the service struggles to address the performance gap between male and female soldiers on the service's first-ever gender-neutral fitness assessment

That's what I'm talkin' about.

The Marine Corps could train as many as eight co-ed companies at boot camp each year, and the general overseeing the effort is hitting back against those complaining that the move is lowering training standards

"I understand why it's done intellectually, but it was tough to be around so much screaming all the time."

Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis suggested Tuesday that the nation should think again about putting young men and women together in ground combat units at a time when they tend to "grow very fond of one another"

"I am incredibly excited to get to VMFA-121 and look forward to the opportunity to serve in the Fleet Marine Forces."