Lifting up stories of female vets, and challenging assumptions about women in uniform. Love y'all but retweets, follows & likes do NOT constitute endorsement.
Sisters, in the summer of 1976 the first class of women joined the ranks at the Naval Academy. Much has changed, and much has not. Share your stories, connect with your sisters, and lift each other up! #sisterhoodwomen.usnagroups.net/categor…
Hey #sisterhood. After a long hiatus, our podcast, Waypoints, is back on the air and we’d love to hear from you. Your stories of service, of life, of what came after the uniform… anything you want heard. Drop me a DM :) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Hey #miltwitter and #vets, especially #womenvets… so… Threads? This app is getting hard to tolerate, but we will miss y’all, but a lot of folks seem to be gone from here?? Thoughts?
“Until the Air Force starts focusing not just on support for victims but accountability for the perpetrator and those who allow them to go unchecked, we will always be the woman behind the goat.” #sisterhood#womenvetsthewarhorse.org/us-air-force…
On March 23, 1978 USAF Capt Sandra M. Scott, a KC-135 pilot with the 904th Aerial Refueling Squadron at Mather AFB, became the first female pilot to sit alert duty for the Strategic Air Command. The picture below is from pilot training in 1977. #militarywomen#KC135
Ooo ooo I have another one! The USN should include "how much human trafficking are we supporting by granting shore leave here?" in their decision about where to pull in to port.
Deep thought 🧵: VA disability ratings come from combat, training, and everything in between. Combat vets and never deployed personnel clerks can both have valid service connected disabilities and BS claims. 1/
BUT, I pause when never deployed personnel clerk walk away with 100% disability, and I was slinging lead downrange and shattered my back vet does not. But "you're not a real vet unless you were in combat" is also BS. . . Is there a way 2/
to credit everyone's service while differentiating when disability ratings are from combat, or operational training, or lifting heavy boxes of copier paper? Slightly more disability pay for deployment/combat injuries? Seriously curious.
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