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and discrimination, 51–52
and military policy, 51–52
and sexual assault, 71, 85
Trieu Thi Trinh,4,9
Tuskegee Airmen, 23
US Air Force Academy, 39
US Air Force Nurse Corps, 25
US Air Force Special Operations forces,
4
US Army,5,17–20, 23, 25–26, 28–29,
31, 34–35, 37, 39–41, 42–46,
52–53, 55, 57, 61, 64, 69, 74,
77–78, 80, 83–84, 87–89, 91–92
US Army Nurse Corps, 15
US Army Reserves, 40, 45
US Department of the Navy, 21–22,
26, 29, 37, 39–41, 44, 54, 56–57,
62–65, 66–67, 69–70, 74, 84,
92–93, 95, 97
US Marine Corps, 17, 29, 37, 40–41,
47–49, 57, 66–69, 74, 77, 79, 94–95
US Military Academy, 35–36, 39
US Naval Academy, 39, 75–76
US Navy Nurse Corps, 15
US Navy Seabees, 62
US Transportation Command, 58
veterans
Center for Women Veterans, 80, 82
depression, 83–85
Disabled American Veterans, 80–81
discrimination, 74, 80–84, 88
Final Salute, 92
homelessness, 74, 87–88, 90, 92
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of
America, 81–82, 93
job training, 88
running for political office,5 ,9, 93–95
services for, 81–87
and suicide, 74, 85–86
transition to civilian life, 81, 84–87,
91–93
US Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA), 80–84, 81, 82, 86–87, 92
Veterans of Foreign Wars, 88
women, 25, 84
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 27
Vietnam Women’s Memorial, 27
Wakeman, Sarah Rosetta (Lyons
Wakeman),10,12–14
wars
Afghanistan,4,9, 26, 55, 58, 79,
81–83, 85, 93–94
Civil War,12–14, 81
Iraq War,9 ,11, 26, 60–62, 69, 76,
80–83, 85, 89, 93, 95
Korean War, 24–25, 87
Revolutionary War,10,40, 49
Vietnam War, 26–27, 87
World War I, 15–18
World War II, 17–24, 26, 49
Women Accepted for Voluntary
Emergency Service (WAVES), 18,
21–23
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs),
18, 20–21, 23–24
Women in Military Service for America
Memorial, 16
women in the military
black women, 22–24, 36, 71–72, 87
in combat units,4,15, 26–30, 31–32,
42–43, 52–54, 55, 57, 66, 79,
80–81, 84, 94–95, 97
discrimination,8, 18, 23–24, 26,
28–30, 73–74, 82, 88
firsts,11, 22–23, 36, 42–43, 53, 59,
65, 66, 70–71, 79, 89, 94–95, 97
gender integration,10 , 19, 29–30,
46–49, 53
history of,9–10 ,12–14
homelessness, 74, 87–88, 90, 92
lesbians, 19, 49–51, 71, 95
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