What year were women allowed to enlist in the military?

Answer 1

Women have been part of the United States Military since the beginning. There are some famous stories about Revolutionary War soldiers taking their wives with them -- and then the wives picking up the fight after they fell.

In the early 20th century all of the services began accepting women, mostly as nurses. With the WWII emergency, all of the services accepted women in many capacities -- nursing, transport pilots, coastal defense, et al. They were accepted into separate "women's corps' -- WACs for the Army, WAVEs for the Navy, WASPs for the Army Air Corps.

In 1977 all of the separate "women's" corps were disestablished with the reorganization to the all volunteer force and the many other changes that were occurring at the time.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Army nurse Corps 1901.

Navy Nurse Corps 1908.

Navy and Marine Corps enlisted women during WWI.

WAVES and WACS came back in 1941.

Answer 4

1917: Loretta Perfectus Walsh becomes the first active-duty U.S. Navy woman, and the first woman to serve in any of the U.S. armed forces in a non-nurse occupation on enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve on March 17, 1917. Walsh subsequently became the first woman U.S. Navy petty officer when she was sworn in as Chief Yeoman on March 21, 1917.
August 13, 1918: Opha Mae Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.

Answer 5

August '42... WAVES, or "Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service".

About the same time... Women's Army Auxiliary Corp WAAC

Answer 6

1777

Answer 7

May 1941 - WWII