Female Marines Face Questions of Strength, Combat Readiness
Female Marines have already begun proving their combat ability with eighty-five women making it through the infantry…
A Look At How Women Are Being Integrated Into the Military
As the military slowly integrates women into potentially all combat positions per Pentagon orders, reports about how…
Army General Fined $20,000 But Will Not Go to Prison for Sex Crimes
Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair was sentenced Thursday, receiving no jail time. He was reprimanded, whatever that means,…
Soldiers Mocked Affair Between General and Subordinate in Gross Skit
As testimony wraps up in the case of Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, a new story has been revealed: when General Sinclair…
Army Removes Hundreds of Soldiers Over Sexual Assault Concerns
The U.S. Army has banned 588 soldiers from working as sexual assault counselors, recruiters and drill sergeants for a…
The Pull-Up Test for Female Marines Has Been Delayed Again
In November, the Marines announced that they'd pushed back a new requirement for women in the Marines to complete the…
Trial Reveals Fort Hood Soldier Tried to Create a Prostitution Ring
A male sergeant stationed at Fort Hood military base is currently on trial for using a prostitution ring allegedly…
First Women Graduate From Marine Corps Infantry Training
Three women have passed the recently revised Marine Corps fitness tests and will graduate from Camp Geiger on Thursday…
Is the Gaming World Ready for Women in Combat?
It's currently very slim pickings when it comes to playable female characters in popular military video games, even…
Marine Corps Officially Says They'll Let Women Train for (Some Types of) Combat
It's happening: the Marine Corps officially announced — as expected — that it will allow women to start training at…
Will Military Women Finally Get the Abortion Access They Deserve?
The military reported 471 rapes of servicemembers in 2011, but the real number is probably higher, since the…
Female Soldiers Sue for Their Right to Fight in Combat
Two female soldiers are suing the U.S. military for banning them (and all women) from front-line combat positions, an…
Marine Corps Comes to Its Senses, Allows Women to Train for Combat
The issue of women in combat has long been a thorny one for the military. While laws forbidding women from serving in…
Australia Allows Female Soldiers In Combat Roles
In most countries, women aren't allowed to serve in combat roles. However, that doesn't mean they don't end up on the…
Women's Post-Combat Stress Similar To Men
A new study finds that in the year after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, male and female servicemembers had…
Female Soldiers Challenge Gender Restrictions In Combat
Women aren't supposed to serve in military units whose primary focus is ground combat, but that doesn't mean they don't…
Detained Female Journalists Released From Libya And Iran
Good news: Libya has released four detained journalists, including Clare Morgana Gillis, and Al Jazeera's Dorothy…
Female Al Jazeera Journalist Missing In Syria
Dorothy Parvaz, a reporter for Al Jazeera, hasn't been heard from since she arrived in Syria Friday. The Committee to…
What To Wear To A Toga Party In Kabul
Kabul was a fishbowl and not conducive to actual dating, even though the foreign women were vastly outnumbered by the…
Covering War At The Dinner Table
In 2005, as violence raged in Iraq, Iran grew more defiant, and Lebanon rumbled with revolution, my friend Annia…