Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Paul Duke introduces a segment on Woman in the Military. Duke comments that the phrase G.I. JOAN conjures up some images like "cohabitation in the foxholes and women flying supersonic bombers", but in the past ten years Congress has been dealing with issues women in the military, and more women have been serving.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
DO NOT USE Army recruiting commercial - a young woman radio officer confidently helps a helicopter land in bad weather, dramatic narration states "it doesn't matter whether you're a man or a woman, only if you're good"
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Lt. Irene Volodkevich, (My first impression was that I was brought up very traditional and I felt I really wasn t certain there was a place for women in the service, but I wanted to experience it. So I came in with a very open mind. And as time goes on, I realized that their are positions in the Marine Corps for females and I saw this when I was going through training and also when I was in charge of training women a year ago at Officer Candidate School. I was very impressed with the potential for women overall.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Female Air Force unit marching.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Air Force AWAC radar/communications plane taking off.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Female officer consulting with male officer in navigation room.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Women serve as Military Police. Female MP conducting traffic stop in a military area.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Fire on Air Base. Firefighters, ostensibly women, fight fire in reflective blast suits.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Congressional committee room, group of male Congressmen sitting around a semicircular table. Pans to a high-ranking Air Force officer pointing to graphs on a chart.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Armed Services Committee member Les Aspin (D - Wisconsin), seated at hearing. Les Aspin, Basically the point we re trying to get at here, I think is that the military pool is going to run into some rough periods in terms of the volunteer army and the late 80s and the early 90s. And we are looking for ways, in this committee, to meet the commitments without a return to the draft. And on of the issues, one of the possible issues is more use of women in the services. Air Force officer pointing to graphs on a chart.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Les Aspin (D - Wisconsin), What I m advocating is that the Air Force move it up. Get more women into those positions. And what I m thinking about, and proposing and talking about and seeing if other committee members are interested, is mandating a level, a percentage level of women for the Air Force, gradually increasing over the next 3 or 4 years.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Shot of Capitol dome from street level
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Low aerial view of Pentagon.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Pentagon Chief of Manpower, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Larry Korb, seated in front of bookshelves. Korb states, We don t believe in quotas. We don t think you ought to tell people you ought to have this many men or this many women. What we do is plan on the basis of experience. And I would think that would be the wrong way to go. I would doubt that Congress would ever pass a law or that it would be ruled Constitutional that we set aside so many jobs in the service for men and for women.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
DO NOT USE series of still shots of women in service, communications work, piloting, repair of electronics, physical training.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Assistant Secretary of Defense, Larry Korb, If you have a woman, for example, who is serving as an air controller on a base, that base could be over-run, that base will probably be attacked. I think it is important to keep in mind that direct combat, does not mean that you won t be involved in fighting. And that s a very important point for people to keep in mind. If we went to war, there would be women involved in the whole operation and there would be women casualties.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Shot of F-16 jet flying, dropping bombs on a desert area.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Women Air Force cadets in a promotion ceremony line.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Les Aspin (D - Wisconsin), One of the problems with the combat exclusion, and I m not sure how you get yourself around it, is that if you re going to exclude women from combat, you re going to exclude women from the highest ranking promotions. Because it s very unlikely that these services are ever going to have a large number of people at the top who have not served in combat. The combat is the real cream of the service.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
A male Army unit running in formation through a desert area, firing weapons, some smoke, ambiguous combat context.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Col. Gail Reals U.S.M.C., We ve got to be competitive. If we re not, the Marine Corps, obviously is going to find that women only make it up this far in the rank structure and then fall out (because we re not being given the opportunity to be competitive. )
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Female soldier takes of in a parasailing exercise.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Paul Duke closes segment - the new fight for women in the military might not succeed in this session of Congress because of opposition to quotas, but the Pentagon seems to be aware of the need to give women more opportunities.