Navy Selects 24 Women for Combat-Support Jobs
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
The Navy announced Friday that it had begun opening additional sea-going combat-support jobs to women, selecting a group of 24, including two officers, for deployment on the fleet oilers Cimarron and Monongahela later this summer.
Under a policy adopted by then-Navy Secretary James H. Webb in December, jobs on ships and aircraft are to be opened to women unless the ship or aircraft has as its primary objective the goal “to seek out, reconnoiter and engage the enemy.”
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