'Until we are able to see military women as service members first and women second, we will continue to experience problems integrating women into the military.'
The truth is that military service for women is amazing, frustrating, empowering, and sometimes downright bizarre. Consequently, I’d like to focus on some of the less visible hurdles that women face, which in turn feed the larger challenges that occur.
Before I could make my departure however, she lifted her arm, extended her index finger and poked me in the shoulder. It occurred to me that she thought she might be hallucinating me. I turned my head to look at her and she said, “Are you a real military lady?” I’m normally pretty quick on my feet but my brain could think of nothing to do except to say “Yes.” She then began to sputter and thank me repeatedly for my service. Let’s table this story and look at another.
I sat there with men who I had been working with for a long time, who called me ma’am every day, and who knew what my rank was and that clearly I was an officer. Yet something in them just did not compute. Being genuinely interested in what was happening in the room, I let them go on for some time, trying to problem solve where to find an officer to do the ceremony.
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