User:21lima/sandbox2
Women
[edit]DoD policies of the time restricted women from many positions, including Field Artillery. The first female mechanical repairer (MOS 46N, Ordnance Branch) graduated from the Pershing course at Redstone Arsenal in 1974.[1] The first female enlisted Pershing missile crewmembers (MOS 15E, Field Artillery) graduated in 1978,[2] as did the first female Field Artillery officer.[3]
Pershing and Lance became the only field artillery systems open to women, thus the only combat arms positions with some 500 women out of 50,000 field artillery soldiers. By 1993, with the elimination of Pershing and Lance there were only 70 women in the field artillery branch.[4]
- ^ "Army Women Study Missiles, Munitions" (PDF). Redstone Rocket. Redstone Arsenal, Alabama: 5. 20 March 1974.
- ^ Busse, Charlane (July 1978). "First Women Join Pershing Training" (PDF). Field Artillery Journal: 40.
- ^ "The Journal interviews: 1LT Elizabeth A. Tourville" (PDF). Field Artillery Journal: 40–43. November 1978.
- ^ Thompson, Mark (14 June 1993). "Army Shutting Women Out Of Artillery "There's Been Nothing But Closing Doors For Us," Said A Female Captain Who Now Teaches Troops". Philly.com.