Women Allowed to Serve on Navy Submarines
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, appointed by President Barack Obama, changed U.S. Navy policy on this day by authorizing women to serve on Navy submarines.
Marquette Leveque was the first woman commissioned to serve on a Navy submarine in December 2012.
The Defense Department dropped another barrier, on January 24, 2013, by allowing women to serve in combat.
Learn more at US Navy, “Women at the Helm”: http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=72279
Watch the first woman commissioned to serve on a submarine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrZmVZ6kVaQ
Learn more about the history of women in the Navy here
Learn more: Evelyn Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee, A Few Good Women: America’s Military Women From World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (2010)
And more about women in the military: http://www.military.com/topics/women-in-the-military