NATION
Thursday, April 29, 1993
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Military lifts combat ban
Women will get opportunity to fly fighters, helicopters
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In a revolutionary change for the U.S. military, Defense Secretary Les Aspin ordered the service chiefs yesterday to drop restrictions on women flying combat missions and serving aboard most Navy warships.
The *steps we are taking today are* historic, "Aspin said at a news conference attended by the chiefs of the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps.
The policy change means that within a year, dozens of women could be flying Navy and Air Force fighter jets and piloting the Army's most lethal attack choppers.
Permitting women to serve aboard warships will require congressional action. Aspin said he had instructed Adm. Frank Kelso, the chief of naval operations, to prepare the groundwork for a legislative proposal to end this prohibition.
"The Navy is ready to go." Kelso said.
Aspin said he also asked the Marine Corps and the Army to study ways of finding jobs for women in field artillery and air defense combat units. Infantry, armor and cavalry would remain off limits to women, the officials said.
the defense secretary also told the services to provide justification if they want to put any battlefield role, including ground combat units, off limits to women.
"Direct combat is a role we should (limit) to men," said Gen. Carl Mundy, the Marine Corps commandant.
the same Corps command. Gen. Gordon Sullivan, the Army chief of staff, said women would begin training for mission missions in Apache and Cobra attack helicopters almost immediately.
The changes mean thousands of jobs and prestige positions once open only to men — and required for advancement and promotion to the highest ranks of the services — will now be open to women.
In the coming weeks, the Air Force is prepared to put its first female pilot into training to fly its F-15 Eagle fighter-bomber, with a half-dozen to
low, Air Force officials said Tuesday Female Navy instructors who fly the EA-6 Prowler electronic warfare jets could be among the first to be deployed aboard aircraft carriers, Navy officials said, while others will enter specialized courses to command F/A-18 Hornet strike fighters or F-14 Tomcats.
About one-third of the Army's 300 female helicopter pilots are expected to volunteer for attack pilot training in the service's most lethal chopper, the Apache, Army officials said.
Gen. Gordon Sullivan, the army's chief of staff, said the new policy would open more than 6,000 additional officer, warrant officer and enlisted positions to women, since crew, mechanic and other support jobs also will be available.
the tour-star general said the Army had 29 female battalion commanders, six female brigade commanders and five female general officers.
"it's taken us 15 years — just like it does with male officers — to develop these women, and I am proud to see them beginning to take their place alongside their counterparts in the leadership of the Army." Sullivan said.
Daughters spend day at the office
The Associated Press
They took to the courts and the clinics, walked the halls of business and government and watched their moms and dads on the job yesterday. Hundreds of thousands of young girls across America were in the workplace, learning one important career lesson: There's a world of choices awaiting them.
They were participants in the "Take Our Daughters to Work" campaign sponsored by the Ms. Foundation. The day was designed to boost the self-worth and self-confidence of girls ages 9 to 15 and introduce them to jobs they might not normally consider.
"What we wanted to do is get girls on the radar screen," said Marie Wilson, foundation president, who projected that about a million people — including about 500,000 girls — participated in the event.
Many girls took advantage of the open doors at businesses ranging from small insurance companies to the Fortune 500 — IBM, Sears and DuPont.
The campaign was a response to research showing girls are outgoing and self-confident until they reach adolescence, when they experience emotional distress and a loss of self-esteem to a greater degree than boys.
"Ideally you'd like to believe we have the same chances as men do," said Lidia Sproff, 16, who joined her mother Nevka Schumaker, a Ford designer. "Until we achieve that, we need days like this where you come to work with your mom and all the girls," she said.
"The women's movement has accomplished a lot," the judge said. "But there are so many children who are already out of the loop. They are not thinking about being lawyers or judges. They are thinking about surviving."
In New York, 9-year-old Justine Goodman, daughter of state Supreme Court Justice Emily Goodman, tried on her mother's black robe, sat in her chair and heard her charge a jury in a heroin-sale case.
Justine, joined by three friends who bopped each other on the head with a pink toy gavel after court, said they might want to become lawyers.
In Olympia, Wash. Pat Norman was joined by her two daughters, Anna, 13, and Jane, 12, at the state Department of Ecology, where she is an environmental educator and assistant coordinator of litter pickup crews.
Both girls helped compose a letter on a personal computer and studied aerial photos.
"I'm not used to seeing all this," Anna said. "At school, we just sit at our desk and learn. You think you'll never use this again. Here, I can see how certain skills can be used."
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