Female combat systems officers in the U.S. Air Force share their experiences and advice on breaking barriers in a male-dominated field. They encourage women to go for it, work hard, and believe in ...

Col. Julie Sposito-Salceies was relieved from the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam unit by Gen. Kevin Schneider, commander of ...

Pages that highlight the accomplishments of women in the Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard remain online.

In a service where women were not permitted to fly in combat until 1993, adapting to a growing female population has been ...

From late 2024 onward, a claim circulated online that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said women should not serve in military combat roles. Shortly after President Donald Trump nominated him ...

The military announced gender-neutral standards for combat roles in 2016. In his public bid to become the next defense secretary, former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth told a Senate panel on ...

In the book that has been referenced multiple times here, The War on Warriors, I spent months talking to active-duty service members -- men and women, low ranks, high ranks, combat arms ...

The Air Force’s top civilian leader has directed the closure of a working group that since 2008 has sought to eliminate arbitrary barriers to women’s service, such as by providing equipment ...

Air Force Gen. C.Q. Brown, the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified in 2023 that he advocated setting recruitment goals to increase military participation among certain groups.

In the Air Force, where women were not permitted to fly in combat until 1993, adapting to a growing female population has been particularly slow and hard-fought, advocates say. Since 2019 alone ...