Having women in the Army poses special challenges. I have been in both pure and mixed units and my experience has been that the pure units have better morale and cohesion. Mixed units add stresses that can degrade performance.

Second from top looks very familiar.

Originally Posted by 5.56X45mm

I had earlier posted the second woman since WWII to be awarded the Silver Star...this is the first.

Originally Posted by wolfen

Certain Navy commands have had women for years places like AIMD NAS Norfolk, VR-56, VAW-120, Oceana NAS, MAG-42 Det Bravo, HM-12,14,and 18, that I know of
most Destroyer tenders have women, and all the supply ship I ever saw had women on them.

Every Navy command except the SEALs and the submarine service has women aboard.