Women's History Month

The Department of Defense Celebrates

Photos

Being inspected by Rear Admiral Victor Blue (left center), Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, on the Washington Monument grounds, Washington, D.C., in 1918. (Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center)

A Black WAC Unit in France during World War II. (Courtesy of AFPS)

Representative of the Army Nurse Corps from the nine Army Corps Areas meet in Washington to discuss recruiting of Army nurses, April 1942. (Courtesy of the U.S. Army Center of Military History)

Both had served in the First World War as Yeoman (F) and were the only World War II WAVES eligible to wear the World War I Victory Ribbon. (Courtesy of the National Archives)

The Persian Gulf War demonstrated
to the American public the capabilities of the country's servicewomen. Several years after the war, Congress lifted the ban on women serving as crew members on combat aircraft and combat vessels. In 1994, the Army began assigning women to the Old Guard Regiment once again. (Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force)

Martha S. Putney, World War II
WAC (Courtesy of AFPS)

Navy WAVES secure a chain hoist
to a radial engine. (Courtesy of
AFPS)

Grace Murray Hopper, U.S. Navy
(Courtesy of the U.S. Navy)

Capt. Hortense Boutell. (Courtesy of the U.S. Army Signal Corps)

Members of the Third WAC Company, Newport News, Va. (Courtesy of the U.S. Army Signal Corps)

RAdm Grace Murry Hopper U.S. Navy (Courtesy of the U.S. Navy)

Seaman Apprentice Jasmine Coty
keeps USS Chancellorsville (CG 62)
on course and at the correct speed
while the guided missile curiser
is underway in the Sea of
Japan, operating with USS Kitty
Hawk (CV 63). (U.S. Navy photo
by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class
Alex C. Witte.)

Air Force NCO earns systems
security award Senior Master Sgt.
Stephanie Harwell, Air Force
Communications Agency, Scott Air
Force Base, Ill., earned the National
Security Agency's 1999 Frank B.
Rowlett Trophy for individual
achievement in Infomation Systems
Security. (Courtesy of the U.S. Air
Force)

Lieutenant (junior grade) Rebecca Aten, of Arlington, Va., peers out through a Mark-21 dive helmet before entering the ocean in Lumut, Malaysia. Lieut.(j.g.) Aten, the supply officer aboard USS Safeguard (ARS 50), is a Navy Diver, and is in Malaysia for Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) 2000. (U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Spike Call.)

A Damage Controlman performs preventative maintenance on a
valve on board the U.S. Navy's
newest nuclear-powered aircraft
carrier USS John C. Stennis
(CVN 74). (U.S. Navy photo by
Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Rick Soileaux.)

Pilot Lt. Erin Markwith assigned
to the 17th Airlift Squadron at
Charleston Air Force Base, S.C.,
flies the first C-17A Globemaster III
across Southern Africa bound for
Huidspruit Air Force Base, South
Africa during "Operation Atlas
Response" March. 5. (U.S.Air
Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Cary
Humphries)

Lieutenant Junior Grade Weihua
Hu of the People's Liberation Army
(Navy) shows Ensign Kathleen
Merkle, assigned to the U.S. Navy's
guided missile cruiser USS
Chancellorsville (CG 62), the helm
of the Chinese desroyer Haerbin
(DDG 112). (U.S. Navy photo by
Photographer's Mate 1st Class
Scott D. Sagisi.)

The flu vaccination shortage
was caused by a slow-growing
component of this year's vaccine
formulation, along with production
problems at two of the four
pharmaceutical companies licensed
to produce influenza vaccine in the
United States. (Courtesy of the U.S.
Air Force)

First Lt. Keri Lynn Schubert is the
first woman Marine selected for
naval flight officer duty in the F/A-
18D Hornet. (Photo by Petty Officer
2nd Class Davis Rush, USN)