Women's Role In The Revolutionary War
Did you know that females fought in the revolutionary war? Yes, women, they had to disguise themselves as men and change their names so they wouldn’t be recognized. In the usa today it’s normal to see a female in the military. Women’s rights evolved a lot over there and still are. In older years all women did was cook, clean, and take care of the house, nowhere near the military. Now over 100,000 are in the military and many people have difference views on this. Women in the military today are viewed in both positive and negative ways. Quil Lawrence and Marisa Penaloza wrote an article called “Off The Battlefield, Military Women Face Risks From Male Troops”. This article talks about how women are viewed in a negative way by some soldiers. In this article, Dora Hernandez, Sabina Rangel, and Jamie Livingston all have been sexually assaulted while
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being in the military. After dedicating 10 years of her life to the military, Dora explains that the worst thing for her was that had to fear her own soldiers, not the enemy. Sabina Rangel understands where Dora is coming from as she was assaulted while she was in boot camp in the Army, and she was raped when she went to the Navy. Sabina enrolled in the army after she graduated to earn money for college. She began getting assaulting by her drill sergeant. After the assault she got married (but got divorced) and had a child. She tried the military again but never went back to the army, instead she tried the Navy and got a job in El Paso. Her command sergeant major teased her and told her “He let me know that if I would meet up with him in a hotel he would give me money. And I was like, 'No, I just need my paycheck,'”(Rangel) She was raped and told others but they just made jokes about it. “About 19,000 sex crimes take place in the military each year, according to the Pentagon's most recent estimate.”(NPR) This view women in the military in a negative because there are used and abuse with no action being taken. Scott Simon host Rachel Martin in an interview called “Women In Combat: How You Feel About It” and they were talking about how Rachel feels about women in combat and she believes women should be able into war. The main point was this interview is that “The Pentagon has a policy that bars women from being assigned to units whose primary mission is to engage in direct ground combat. There's a debate going on about whether that policy should change.”(NPR). Simon states how “Mr. Schmitt says: The average female cannot carry the required per-soldier combat load. Putting a woman in a normal infantry squad will force the other members of the squad to physically carry the gear that she is not able to.” So basically the women would be slowing the men down. But Martin feels as though “there is recognition, Scott, at the highest levels of the military, that the current policy just does not reflect the reality on the ground. So, if the assignment policy - keeping women out of direct ground combat units - was meant to keep women out of direct ground combat then it's not working because in these wars that can happen all the time.” So they should withdraw the ban of women in direct ground combat. This gives readers a positive view on women in the military because if women are already in danger of dying without necessarily being on ground combat they should be able to fight in combat. In Jennie Wood’s article “A History of Women in the U.S.
Military” she speaks on the first U.S. women soldiers, U.S. women in the world wars, Women's Role in War Changes in Late 20th Century, and Women in the U.S. Military Today. Her article is speaking on difference of women in the military over time. Wood reveals us that during the Revolutionary War, some women were in combat but they disguised themselves as men and enlisted under other names to not be recognized as a female. Also during World War I was the first time the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps allowed women to enlist. With their eager to be equals more than 12,000 enlisted and worked at various jobs. Over 40,000 women enrolled in the 20th century and it was the first time men and women were sent out together in war. Lastly, today women make up 14% of the U.S. military. Almost 200,000 women are enlisted and active in the armed services with over 35,000 women are officers in the military. This gives us another positive outlook on women in military because it inspires other women to join as well seeing how the women population over throughout the military over
time. About almost a month ago, on July 7th, 2014 Tom Bowman wrote an article on how the marines are looking for fearless females for ground combat jobs in January of 2016. His article speaks on the Marines trying to open up jobs to females with lowering the standards for them.” Eighty-five female Marines already made it through an infantry training course last fall at Camp Lejeune, N.C., which included drills such as attacking a mock enemy force, hidden in a pine forest. That course lasted eight weeks, and the men and women all completed the same training.” Now this summer, things have been taken up to a new level. More than 160 women will be training with the Marines in the Mojave Desert, Pacific Coast beaches and the Sierra Nevada mountains; They will be expected to march with 100-pound packs, mount an attack that will include tanks, then dig a defensive position and more. Depending on how the women complete this training will determine how they are view; if they succeed they’ll be viewed in a positive manner, if they fail they’ll be viewed in a negative manner.
being in the military. After dedicating 10 years of her life to the military, Dora explains that the worst thing for her was that had to fear her own soldiers, not the enemy. Sabina Rangel understands where Dora is coming from as she was assaulted while she was in boot camp in the Army, and she was raped when she went to the Navy. Sabina enrolled in the army after she graduated to earn money for college. She began getting assaulting by her drill sergeant. After the assault she got married (but got divorced) and had a child. She tried the military again but never went back to the army, instead she tried the Navy and got a job in El Paso. Her command sergeant major teased her and told her “He let me know that if I would meet up with him in a hotel he would give me money. And I was like, 'No, I just need my paycheck,'”(Rangel) She was raped and told others but they just made jokes about it. “About 19,000 sex crimes take place in the military each year, according to the Pentagon's most recent estimate.”(NPR) This view women in the military in a negative because there are used and abuse with no action being taken. Scott Simon host Rachel Martin in an interview called “Women In Combat: How You Feel About It” and they were talking about how Rachel feels about women in combat and she believes women should be able into war. The main point was this interview is that “The Pentagon has a policy that bars women from being assigned to units whose primary mission is to engage in direct ground combat. There's a debate going on about whether that policy should change.”(NPR). Simon states how “Mr. Schmitt says: The average female cannot carry the required per-soldier combat load. Putting a woman in a normal infantry squad will force the other members of the squad to physically carry the gear that she is not able to.” So basically the women would be slowing the men down. But Martin feels as though “there is recognition, Scott, at the highest levels of the military, that the current policy just does not reflect the reality on the ground. So, if the assignment policy - keeping women out of direct ground combat units - was meant to keep women out of direct ground combat then it's not working because in these wars that can happen all the time.” So they should withdraw the ban of women in direct ground combat. This gives readers a positive view on women in the military because if women are already in danger of dying without necessarily being on ground combat they should be able to fight in combat. In Jennie Wood’s article “A History of Women in the U.S.
Military” she speaks on the first U.S. women soldiers, U.S. women in the world wars, Women's Role in War Changes in Late 20th Century, and Women in the U.S. Military Today. Her article is speaking on difference of women in the military over time. Wood reveals us that during the Revolutionary War, some women were in combat but they disguised themselves as men and enlisted under other names to not be recognized as a female. Also during World War I was the first time the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps allowed women to enlist. With their eager to be equals more than 12,000 enlisted and worked at various jobs. Over 40,000 women enrolled in the 20th century and it was the first time men and women were sent out together in war. Lastly, today women make up 14% of the U.S. military. Almost 200,000 women are enlisted and active in the armed services with over 35,000 women are officers in the military. This gives us another positive outlook on women in military because it inspires other women to join as well seeing how the women population over throughout the military over
time. About almost a month ago, on July 7th, 2014 Tom Bowman wrote an article on how the marines are looking for fearless females for ground combat jobs in January of 2016. His article speaks on the Marines trying to open up jobs to females with lowering the standards for them.” Eighty-five female Marines already made it through an infantry training course last fall at Camp Lejeune, N.C., which included drills such as attacking a mock enemy force, hidden in a pine forest. That course lasted eight weeks, and the men and women all completed the same training.” Now this summer, things have been taken up to a new level. More than 160 women will be training with the Marines in the Mojave Desert, Pacific Coast beaches and the Sierra Nevada mountains; They will be expected to march with 100-pound packs, mount an attack that will include tanks, then dig a defensive position and more. Depending on how the women complete this training will determine how they are view; if they succeed they’ll be viewed in a positive manner, if they fail they’ll be viewed in a negative manner.