Women in the Military - page 13

Index
African Americans, discrimination, 22
aircraft
E-2C Hawkeye, 55
F/A-18, 94, 97
Kiowa,5–7
Pave Hawk,4
Sikorsky Seahawk, 56
Super Hornet, 59
Air National Guard,5,8–9, 41
American Civil Liberties Union, 48
Army Rangers, 29, 42, 53
Artemisia (queen of Greece),9
awards
Purple Heart, 27, 94
Silver Star,11, 43
bad paper discharge, 74, 88
Belgian Malinois, 58
boot camp. See training
Booted: Lack of Recourse for Wrongfully
Discharged US Military Rape
Survivors (Human Rights Watch), 74
Boudicca (Celtic queen),9
camps and bases
Camp Lejeune, NC, 48–49
Camp Pendleton, CA, 65, 79
Sheppard Air Force Base, TX, 25
Carter, Ashton,10 , 28–29, 51
courts-martial, 49, 68
cyber sexual assault, 67–69
Department of Defense, US,10 , 29–30,
42–43, 50–51, 67–69, 74–75, 93
Department of Defense Annual Report on
Sexual Assault in the Military, 71
discrimination
African Americans, 22–24
gays and lesbians, 49–50, 71
transgender service members, 51–52
veterans, 74, 80–84, 88
women,8, 18, 23–24, 26, 28–30,
73–74, 82, 88
Duckworth, Tammy, 89
and daughter, 89
Executive Orders
9066 (Japanese internment), 24
9981 (desegregation of US military), 24
Fear Us Women, 33
Final Salute, 92
and Jas Boothe, 92–93
Firsts (sidebars)
Simone Askew, 36
Tammy Duckworth, 89
Kristen Griest, 53
Shaye Haver, 53
Leigh Ann Hester,11, 43
Mariah Klenke, 65
Loretta Walsh, 16
gays in the military, 49–51
Fannie Mae Clackum, 49–50
discrimination, 49–50, 71
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, 50–51, 71
Grace Garner, 49–50
history of, 49–51
sexual assault, 50, 71–72
Gillibrand, Kirsten, 76–77
and Military Justice Improvement Act,
76
Green Berets, 29, 52, 54
Human Rights Campaign, 51
improvised explosive devices (IED),4,11,
58, 69
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), 33,
61–62
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