So often timer we think of a vet protecting our freedom as a man when women and men are side by side protecting our freedom and out lives.
As of May 6th 2012 women in combat opened up 24,000.00 jobs.These new programs are being tested at nine brigades before going army-wide. The army is limiting the restrictions that kept women from the front lines.The female and the non-commissioned officers will be assigned to combat units below the brigade level. There are still 250,000 jobs still unavailable to women.
Some of the jobs opening up within combat battalions are in personnel, intelligence, logistics signal corps, medical and chaplaincy. The military is also opening up positions in mechanics for tanks and artillery and rocket launchers.
Capt. Elizabeth Evans, a 44 year old mother of five, is one of the first women assigned to the combat battalions. She will be serving as a S1, whose job is to oversee personnel issues within the battalion including awards, casualties, human resources and other administrative responsibilities.
Women have been serving in very forward deployed roles, and women have been serving side by side with combat personnel, just not in a formal assigned assigned method.
She said these incremental changes could improve the professional develop of both men and women in the military, but acknowledged that he military still has a long way to go to leveling the field for women.
