Living Legends and Full Agency: Implications of Repealing the Combat Exclusion Policy

Vick, Dwight

doi:10.1080/10999922.2015.1093399

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“…With women in and returning from Forward Operating Bases (FOBs), however, innovative literature on the topic of military women transitioned from historical and theoretical to boots-on-the-ground narratives (cf. Harris, 2015;Holmstedt, 2007Holmstedt, , 2009Solaro, 2006). The official opening of ground combat resulted in numerous "firsts," such as Captain Kristin Geist and First Lieutenant Shaye Haver graduating U.S. Army Ranger School (Neuman, 2015); First Lieutenant Marina Hierl became the first woman to graduate the Marine Corps Infantry Officer Course (Scott, 2018) and an unnamed woman completed the U.S. Navy's elite SEAL school (Ives, 2021).…”

Section: A Litany Of "Firsts" From Afghanistanmentioning

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Overturning the “Risk Rule” of 1988, Opting for New Risks: U.S. Women Servicemembers and the War in Afghanistan

Buscha¹

2022

Armed Forces & Society

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The evolution of the status of American women as warriors between Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm in 1990-1991 and the War in Afghanistan, beginning in 2001 [and simultaneously the Iraq War in 2003] is explored. This era of American civil-military history included rescinding the ‘Risk Rule’ of 1988, the formal ban on women serving in ground combat units. This generation of women’s legitimate military service as warriors began. The Afghanistan War period also exposed, however, the physical and emotional risks military women often face from their own colleagues on a global scale in the form of sexual violence. As a society, we purposefully must eliminate such risks inherent in the contemporary All-Volunteer Force (AVF) and clean up the resulting messes before we even consider taking the risk of conscription and mass mobilization of American women in our next war.

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Section: A Litany Of "Firsts" From Afghanistanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Overturning the “Risk Rule” of 1988, Opting for New Risks: U.S. Women Servicemembers and the War in Afghanistan

Buscha¹

2022

Armed Forces & Society

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Living Legends and Full Agency: Implications of Repealing the Combat Exclusion Policy

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Overturning the “Risk Rule” of 1988, Opting for New Risks: U.S. Women Servicemembers and the War in Afghanistan

Overturning the “Risk Rule” of 1988, Opting for New Risks: U.S. Women Servicemembers and the War in Afghanistan

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