Women in the United States Navy


Many women have served in the United States Navy for over a century. Today, there are over 52,391 women serving on active duty in an array of traditional and non-traditional ratings or careers. Like their male counterparts, female sailors are expected to adhere to regulations specific to appearance, grooming, and health and fitness; however some differences exist for example in physical fitness tests due to performance and in relation to pregnancy and parenting provisions created to help support military families.

History

Pre–World War I

Women worked as nurses for the navy as early as the American Civil War. The United States Navy Nurse Corps was officially established in 1908; it was all-female until 1965. After the establishment of the Nurse Corps in 1908 by an Act of Congress, twenty women were selected as the first members and assigned to the Naval Medical School Hospital in Washington, D.C. However, the navy did not provide room or board for them, and so the nurses rented their own house and provided their own meals.
In time, the nurses would come to be known as "The Sacred Twenty" because they were the first women to serve formally as members of the Navy. The "Sacred Twenty" were Mary H. Du Bose; Adah M. Pendleton; Elizabeth M. Hewitt; Della V. Knight; Josephine Beatrice Bowman; Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee; Esther Voorhees Hasson, the first Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps, 1908–1911; Martha E. Pringle; Elizabeth J. Wells; Clare L. De Ceu.; Elizabeth Leonhardt; Estelle Hine; Ethel R. Parsons; Florence T. Milburn; Boniface T. Small; Victoria White; Isabelle Rose Roy; Margaret D. Murray; Sara B. Myer; and Sara M. Cox. The Nurse Corps gradually expanded to 160 on the eve of World War I. For a few months in 1913, Navy nurses saw their first shipboard service, aboard Mayflower and Dolphin.

World War I

The increased size of the United States Navy in support of World War I increased the need for clerical and administrative support. The U.S. Naval Reserve Act of 1916 permitted the enlistment of qualified "persons" for service; Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels asked, "Is there any law that says a Yeoman must be a man?" and was told there was not. Thus, the navy was able to induct its first female sailors into the U.S. Naval Reserve. The first woman to enlist in the U.S. Navy was Loretta Perfectus Walsh on 17 March 1917. She was also the first American active-duty navy woman, and the first woman allowed to serve as a woman in any of the United States armed forces, as anything other than as a nurse. Walsh subsequently became the first woman U.S. Navy petty officer when she was sworn in as Chief Yeoman on 21 March 1917. During World War I Navy women served around the continental U.S. and in France, Guam and Hawaii, mostly as Yeomen, but also as radio operators, electricians, draftsmen, pharmacists, photographers, telegraphers, fingerprint experts, chemists, torpedo assemblers and camouflage designers. Some black women served as Yeomen and were the first black women to serve as enlisted members of the U.S. armed forces. These first black women to serve in the navy were 16 Yeomen —the total would rise to 24—from some of "Washington's elite black families" who "worked in the Muster Roll division at Washington's Navy Yard...." All women in the navy were released from active duty after the end of the war.

World War II

again brought the need for additional personnel. The Navy organized to recruit women into a separate women's auxiliary, labeled Women Appointed for Voluntary Emergency Service. WAVES served in varied positions around the continental U.S. and in Hawaii.
Two groups of Navy nurses were held prisoner by the Japanese in World War II. Chief Nurse Marion Olds and nurses Leona Jackson, Lorraine Christiansen, Virginia Fogerty and Doris Yetter were taken prisoner on Guam shortly after Pearl Harbor and transported to Japan. They were repatriated in August 1942, although the newspaper did not identify them as Navy nurses. Chief Nurse Laura Cobb and her nurses, Mary Chapman, Bertha Evans, Helen Gorzelanski, Mary Harrington, Margaret Nash, Goldie O'Haver, Eldene Paige, Susie Pitcher, Dorothy Still and C. Edwina Todd were captured in 1942 in the Philippines and imprisoned in the Los Baños internment camp there, where they continued to function as a nursing unit, until they were rescued by American forces in 1945. Other Los Baños prisoners later said: "We are absolutely certain that had it not been for these nurses many of us who are alive and well would have died." Navy nurse Ann Agnes Bernatitus, one of the "Angels of Bataan", nearly became another POW; she was one of the last to escape Corregidor Island in the Philippines, via the. Upon her return to the United States she became the first American to receive the Legion of Merit.
In 1943, Thelma Bendler Stern, an engineering draftsman, became the first woman assigned to perform duties aboard a United States Navy ship as part of her official responsibilities.
The first black woman sworn into the Navy Nurse Corps was Phyllis Mae Dailey, a Columbia University student from New York, on 8 March 1945. She was the first of only four black women to serve as a Navy nurse during World War II.

Korean War era

Women in the Naval Reserve were recalled along with their male counterparts for duty during the Korean War.

Vietnam War era

Nurses served aboard the hospital ship USS Sanctuary. Nine non-nurse navy women served in country; however no enlisted navy women were authorized.

Women in the navy since 1970

Major changes occurred for navy women in the 1970s. Alene Duerk became the first female admiral in the navy in 1972. In 1976 RADM Fran McKee became the first female unrestricted line officer appointed to flag rank. In 1978, Judge John Sirica ruled the law banning navy women from ships to be unconstitutional in the case Owens v. Brown. That year, Congress approved a change to Title 10 USC Section 6015 to permit the navy to assign women to fill sea duty billets on support and noncombatant ships. During the 1970s, women began to enter the surface warfare and aviation fields, gained access to officer accession programs previously open only to men, and started to screen for command opportunities ashore.
In December 2015, Defense Secretary Ash Carter stated that starting in 2016 all combat jobs would open to women. In March 2016 Ash Carter approved final plans from military service branches and the U.S. Special Operations Command to open all combat jobs to women, and authorized the military to begin integrating female combat soldiers "right away."

Aviation

In 1972, Roseann Roberts became the first female helicopter plane captain in the navy.
In 1973 the Secretary of the Navy announced the authorization of naval aviation training for women. LTJG Judith Neuffer was the first woman selected for flight training. In 1974, the navy became the first service to graduate a woman pilot, LT Barbara Allen Rainey, followed closely by classmates Judith Neuffer, Ana Marie Fuqua, Rosemary Bryant Mariner, Jane Skiles O'Dea and Joellen Drag.
Women began attending Aviation Officer Candidate School in 1976.
In 1979 the Naval Flight Officer program opened to women.
Also in 1979, LT Lynn Spruill became the first woman naval aviator to obtain carrier qualification.

Benefits

Frontiero v. Richardson,, was a landmark Supreme Court case which decided that benefits given by the military to the family of service members cannot be given out differently because of sex.

Officer Accession Programs

The Reserve Officer Training Corps was opened to women in 1972 and the first woman was commissioned from a ROTC program in 1974. The Women Officer School, Newport, RI, was disestablished in 1973, and Officer Candidate School training was integrated to support men and women. The United States Naval Academy, along with the other military academies, first accepted women in 1976 and commissioned its first female graduates in 1980. Women also began attending Aviation Officer Candidate School in 1976.

Naval Nuclear Power Training

While still barred from serving on combatant vessels, enlisted women were accepted for training in the Naval Nuclear Power Program in the early 80s. After initial rating training, this consisted of Nuclear Power School, and the follow on Nuclear Power Training Unit operational training. The first graduates of this training were in 1981. Because all nuclear powered vessels in the Navy at this time were combatants, these women were assigned to either prototype training billets or service/support roles on tenders and shore facilities. This caused some resentment among males in the enlisted nuclear power community because the women were viewed as taking away shore billets that would allow them to maintain a pay bonus based on their maintaining their proficiency in the nuclear power field. Training women in the nuclear power program was discontinued after a year or two because of this restriction on assigning them to combatant units.

Submarines

On 29 April 2010, the Department of the Navy announced authorization of a policy change allowing women to begin serving on board navy submarines. The new policy and plan was set to begin with the integration of female Officers. A group of up to 24 female Officers were scheduled to enter the standard nuclear submarine training pipeline in July 2010 – and expected to report to submarine duty by late 2011 or early 2012. Integration of Enlisted females into submarine crews was expected to begin soon thereafter. Initial candidates for female Submarine Officer positions were highly qualified selects from accession sources that include the Naval Academy, Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps, STA-21 program and Officer Candidate School, with transfers possible for those from other Unrestricted Line Officer communities. A group of up to eight female Supply Corps Officers was also expected to complete requisite training and begin submarine service in the same time frame.
Initial assignments for female submariners were on the blue and gold crews of selected guided-missile submarines and ballistic-missile submarines. Two submarines of each type served as the inaugural vessels. The first group of U.S. female submariners completed nuclear power school and officially reported on board two ballistic and two guided missile submarines in November 2011. In 2012, it was announced that 2013 would be the first year for women to serve on U.S. attack submarines. On 22 June 2012, a sailor assigned to became the first female supply officer to qualify in U.S. submarines. Lt. Britta Christianson of Ohios Gold Crew received her Submarine Supply Corps "dolphins" from the Gold Crew Commanding Officer Capt. Rodney Mills during a brief ceremony at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility.
On 5 December 2012, three sailors assigned to and became the first female unrestricted line officers to qualify in U.S. submarines. LTJG Jennifer Noonan , a native of Scituate MA, and LTJG Amber Cowan both of Maines Blue Crew, and LTJG Marquette Leveque, a native of Fort Collins, Colo., assigned to the Gold Crew of Wyoming, and received their submarine "dolphins" during separate ceremonies at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, Wash. and Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga. respectively. In 2013, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said that the first women to join Virginia-class attack subs had been chosen: They were newly commissioned female officers scheduled to report to their subs in fiscal year 2015. In August 2016, Chief Petty Officer Dominique Saavedra became the first enlisted female sailor to earn her submarine qualification, and was assigned to.

Surface warfare

In 1972 the pilot program for assignment of officers and enlisted women to ships was initiated on board USS Sanctuary. In 1978 Congress approved a change to Title 10 USC Section 6015 to permit the navy to assign women to fill sea duty billets on support and noncombatant ships. The Surface Warfare community opened to women. In 1979, the first woman obtained her Surface Warfare Officer qualification. In 1993, Congress approved women to serve on combat ships. There were about 33 women who were the first assigned to these sea billets.

Timeline of women in the United States Navy

Careers

In the navy, women are currently eligible to serve in all ratings. In 2013 Leon Panetta removed the U.S. military's ban on women serving in combat, overturning a 1994 rule prohibiting women from being assigned to smaller ground combat units. Panetta's decision gave the U.S. military services until January 2016 to seek special exceptions if they believed any positions must remain closed to women. The services had until May 2013 to draw up a plan for opening all units to women and until the end of 2015 to actually implement it. In December 2015, Defense Secretary Ash Carter stated that starting in 2016 all combat jobs would open to women.
The former policy set by Congress and the Secretary of Defense, effective 1 October 1994, excluded women from direct ground combat billets in the military, stating:

Dress

The Physical Fitness Assessment is conducted twice a year for all sailors, which includes:
Physical Readiness Test include different standards for male and female sailors. PRT is a series of physical activities designed to evaluate factors that enable members to perform physically. Factors evaluated are:
PT Fitness Standards :
  1. 500-yard swim
  2. Push-Ups
  3. Sit-Ups
  4. Pull-Ups
  5. 1 ½ mile run

    Navy family life

Benefits

Frontiero v. Richardson,, was a landmark Supreme Court case which decided that benefits given by the military to the family of service members cannot be given out differently because of sex.

Marriage

Spouse co-location assignments are fully supported by the Chief of Naval Personnel and when requested become the highest priority and main duty preference consistent with the needs of the navy. While not always possible, every effort, within reason, will be made for military couples and family members to move & serve together. Co-op assignments are not guaranteed.
The service member requesting transfer to join with his/her spouse or family member must have a minimum of one year on board his/her present command at the time of transfer.
Military couples may not be permanently assigned to the same ship or the same shipboard deployable command. For shore assignments, the couple will not assign to the same reporting senior without the gaining CO's approval. Unusual circumstances may require a couple being temporarily assigned to the same afloat activity, which is allowable at the CO's discretion.

Controversies

Gender identity

From 1960 to 30 June 2016, there was a blanket ban on all transgender people, including but not limited to transgender women, from serving and enlisting in the United States military, including but not limited to the Navy. From 30 June 2016 to 11 April 2019, transgender personnel in the United States military were allowed to serve in their preferred gender upon completing transition. From 1 January 2018 to 11 April 2019, transgender individuals could enlist in the United States military under the condition of being stable for 18 months in their preferred or biological gender.

Pregnancy

In her 1995 book Tailspin: Women at War in the Wake of Tailhook, Jean Zimmerman reported that there was a perception in the navy that women sailors use pregnancy to escape or avoid deployed ship duty. In an example cited by Zimmerman, in 1993 as the USS Cape Cod prepared to depart on a deployment cruise, 25 female sailors, out of a crew of 1,500, reported being pregnant shortly before the scheduled departure and were reassigned to shore duty. Although Zimmerman felt that the number of pregnancies was small and should not be regarded as significant, the senior enlisted sailor on the ship, Command Master Chief Alice Smith rejoined, "Just about every division has been decimated by the number of pregnancies. Now tell me that's not going to hurt a ship." A 1997 study by the Navy Personnel Research and Development Center found that female sailors assigned to ships experienced higher pregnancy and abortion rates than shore-based female sailors.
A Navy policy change in June 2007 extended post-partum tours of duty ashore from 4 months to 12 months. A Virginia Pilot article in October 2007 reported on the navy's policy decision as a means to improve long term retention of trained personnel. The chief of women's policy for the chief of personnel noted that far more men than women fail to deploy or are sent back from deployment, "because of sports injuries, discipline issues or testing positive for drugs."
In 2009, Andrew Tilghman reported in the Military Times on a Naval Inspector General report noting that, in the wake of this change, Navy shore commands based in Norfolk reported that 34% of their assigned members were pregnant sailors reassigned from ship duty. Since shore-based assignments for pregnant sailors were extended in 2007, the number of navy women leaving deploying units to have children rose from 1,770 in June 2006 to 3,125 as of 1 August 2009. Tilghman further reports that Navy Personnel Command is reviewing the report.

Sexual orientation

Before the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy was enacted in 1993, lesbians and bisexual women were banned from serving in the military. In 1993 the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy was enacted, which mandated that the military could not ask servicemembers about their sexual orientation. However, until the policy was ended in 2011 service members were still expelled from the military if they engaged in sexual conduct with a member of the same sex, stated that they were lesbian, gay, or bisexual, and/or married or attempted to marry someone of the same sex.

Women on submarines

In July 1994, policy changes were made expanding the number of assignments available to women in the navy. At this time, repeal of the combat exclusion law gave women the opportunity to serve on surface combatant ships but still excluded assignments for women to serve on board submarines. Previously there had been concern about bringing women onto submarines because living quarters offered little privacy and weren't considered suitable for mixed-gender habitation.
In October 2009, the Secretary of the Navy announced that he and the Chief of Naval Operations were moving aggressively to change the policy. Reasons included the fact that larger SSGN and SSBN submarines now in the Fleet had more available space and could accommodate female Officers with little or no modification. Also, the availability of qualified female candidates with the desire to serve in this capacity was cited. It was noted that women now represented 15% of the Active Duty Navy and that women today earn about half of all science and engineering bachelor's degrees. A policy change was deemed to serve the aspirations of women, the mission of the navy and the strength of its submarine force.
In February 2010, the Secretary of Defense approved the proposed policy and signed letters formally notifying Congress of the intended change. After receiving no objection, the Department of the Navy officially announced on 29 April 2010, that it had authorized women to serve on board submarines moving forward.
The first group of U.S. female submariners completed nuclear power school and officially reported on board two ballistic and two guided missile submarines in November 2011.

Admirals

became the first female admiral in the navy in 1972. Michelle J. Howard became the first female four-star admiral in the navy in 2014.
NameCommissionPositionCommunityRDMLRADMVADMADMRetiredNotes
11982 Vice Chief of Naval OperationsSurface Warfare2006 2010 2012 2014 2017 Retired. Highest ranking woman in the US Navy and US Armed Forces
21970Director, Navy Staff, N09B, Office of the Chief of Naval OperationsURL? ? 1996 2004 Retired. First woman to earn third star in the US Navy.
31974 President, National Defense UniversityFleet Support1999 2002 2005 2012 Retired.
41974 Director for C4 Systems URL2000 2003 2006 2009 Retired.
51977 Deputy Chief of Staff for Capability and Development, Supreme Allied Commander TransformationSurface Warfare2003 2007 2010 2013 Retired.
61984 Judge Advocate General of the NavyJAG2009 2009 2012 2015 Retired.
71980Chief of Navy Reserve/Commander, Navy Reserve ForceReserve, Naval Aviator2007 2011 2012 2016 Retired.
81979 Commander, US Third FleetNaval Flight Officer2007 2011 2013 2017 Retired. First woman to command a carrier strike group.
9Jan E. Tighe1984 Commander, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command, Commander U. S. 10th FleetIDW/Crypto2010 2013 2014 2018 First female IDW flag officer. First woman to command a numbered fleet.
781979Director, Defense Health AgencyMedical Corps2011 2014 2015 Currently on active duty.
101987 Commander, Joint Forces Headquarters - Department of Defense Information Network ; Director of the Defense Information Agency IDW2013 2016 2018 Currently on active duty.
111950Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel for Human Resource ManagementURL1976 1978 1981 First woman line officer promoted to flag rank in the United States Navy. Second woman promoted to flag rank in the United States Navy
121960Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel, Personnel Readiness and Community Support 1989–1992URL1984 1989 1992 First woman to command a navy training command.
131967Superintendent of the Naval Postgraduate School 1995–1998Fleet Support1992 1996 1998 Retired.
14196918th Director, Navy Nurse Corps 1994–1998SHCE 1994 1997 2000 18th Director, Navy Nurse Corps.
151970 Provost, Naval War College 2000–2002URL1994 1998 2002 Notes.
161970Director, Ashore Readiness, Chief of Naval Operations, Washington, D.c. 2000 – 2001Fleet Support1995 1999 2001 First woman commander of Navy Region Southwest, 1997–2000.
171975 Fleet Surgeon, U.S. Atlantic Fleet 1999–Medical Corps1997 2000 2003 First female physician to become a flag officer in the military.
181971Program Director, Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense 2003–2005Engineering Duty Officer1996 2001 2005 Retired.
191975Chief of Staff, Chief of Naval Operations, N093R, Washington, D.C.SHCE 1997 2001 2002 Retired. 1st female two-star in the Reserves.
201973 Deputy Surgeon General of the Navy/ Vice Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery 2002–2005SHCE 1998 2001 2005 19th Director of the Navy Nurse Corps from August 1998 to August 2001. First Nurse Corps officer to be assigned to the position of Deputy Surgeon General of the Navy.
211974 Commander, Navy Region Southeast Fleet Support1999 2002 2005 Retired.
221974 Director, Supply, Ordnance and Logistics Operations Division, N41 2003–2005Supply Corps1999 2002? 2005 Retired.
231973 Deputy Chief for Reserve Affairs at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery 2005–2006?SHCE 2001 2004 2006 Retired.
241972 Senior Health Care Executive Regional Director, TRICARE Regional Office – WestSHCE 2003 2004 Retired.20th Director of the Navy Nurse Corps.
251974 Commander, Joint POW/MIA Accounting CommandURL2001 2005 Retired.
261978 Director, National Maritime Intelligence CenterReserve2003 2006 ? Retired.
271976 Vice Commander, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, Commander, Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support GroupReserve2003 2006 2009 Retired
281977 Vice Director, Defense Information Systems AgencyURL2003 2006 ? Retired. First woman to Command the JTF-GNO, after serving as its Deputy Commander. First woman Vice Director at DISA.
291974Commander, Navy Medicine West, Naval Medical Center San DiegoNurse Corps2004 2009 2010 Retired. 21st Director of the Navy Nurse Corps.
301980deputy director, TRICARE Management ActivityMedical2004 2009 Retired.
311977 Commander, Navy Warfare Development Command, NorfolkReserve2004 2008 2011 Retired. First female naval aviator promoted to Flag rank.
321973 Deputy Surgeon General of Navy MedicineNurse Corps2003 2008 Retired. 22nd Director of the Navy Nurse Corps.
331978 Director, Inter-American Defense CollegeURL2005 2007 Retired.
341979 Director, Supply, Ordnance and Logistics Operations Division Supply Corps2006 2009 Retired.
351980 Vice Director for C4 Systems URL, then Information Professional2006 2009 2012 Retired.
361981Director, Navy Nurse CorpsNurse Corps2008 2010 Retired. 23rd Director of the Navy Nurse Corps
371981 Commander, Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group Reserve, Supply Corps2007 2010 Retired.
381980 Director, Total Force Requirements Division Navy Human Resources Officer2008 2011 Retired.
391981 Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense for Military ProfessionalismNaval Flight Officer2008 2011 2017 82nd Commandant of Midshipmen, USNA – first woman.
401980 Senior Advisor for Space to the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance Reserve2007 2012 Retired.
411982 Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Chief of Civil EngineersCEC2010 2012 First female CEC admiral.
421983 Director, National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office, Commander, Office of Naval IntelligenceIntelligence2009 2012 Currently on active duty.
431982Deputy Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Deputy Chief of Civil EngineersCEC2010 2013 Currently on active duty.
441984Deputy Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Wounded, Ill and InjuredDental Corps2010 2013 2017 Retired. Chief of the Naval Dental Corps, 2010 – 2017.
451985 Deputy Director, Contingency Contracting, Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy, OSD Supply Corps2011 2014 Currently on active duty.
461983Deputy Judge Advocate General JAG2012 2014 Currently serving.
471979 Director Inter-American Defense CollegeEOD2010 2014 Retired Aug 2018.
481980 Commander, Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support GroupSupply Corps2011 2014 Currently on active duty.
491981Chief of Staff, Bureau of Medicine and SurgeryNurse Corps2011 2014 Currently on active duty.
501986 Chaplain of the United States Marine Corps, deputy chief of Navy ChaplainsChaplain Corps2010 2014 18th Chaplain of the USMC, first female chaplain at USNA.
511943Director Navy Nurse Corps 1970–1975Nurse Corps1972 1975 First female admiral in the United States Navy. Director Navy Nurse Corps 1970–1975.
521951Director, Navy Nurse Corps 1975–1979Nurse Corps1975 1979? Director, Navy Nurse Corps.
53195114th Director, Navy Nurse Corps 1979–1983Nurse Corps1979 1983 14th Director, Navy Nurse Corps.
541953Commander, Naval Training Center OrlandoURL1981 1983? Second woman line officer selected for flag rank.
551944Head, Training and Technology Directorate/Special Advisor to the Commander, Naval Data Automation CommandURL?1983 1986 Co-inventor of COBOL. Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer named for RADM Hopper.
56195115th Director, Navy Nurse Corps 1983–1987Nurse Corps1983 1987 Retired. 15th Director, Navy Nurse Corps.
57195916th Director, Navy Nurse Corps 1987–1991Nurse Corps1987 1991 Retired. Director, Navy Nurse Corps.
581964Commander, Naval Base Philadelphia −1994URL1988 1994 Retired. First woman to command a naval base.
59196617th Director, Navy Nurse Corps 1991–1994Nurse Corps1991 1994 Retired. 17th Director, Navy Nurse Corps.
601964Reserve Nurse Corps1990 1995 Retired. First Reserve flag officer for Navy Nurse Corps.
611963Commander, Naval Space Command, Dahlgren, VA 1995–1997Fleet Support1993 1997 Retired.
621962Deputy Director of the Navy Nurse Corps for Reserve AffairsReserve Nurse Corps1994 1997 retired.
63????Director, On-Site Inspection Directorate 1998–2000Fleet Support1996 2000 Retired.
641973 Director, Information Transfer Division for the Space, Information Warfare, Command and Control Directorate ?-2001URL1998 2001 Retired. First African-American woman to achieve flag rank.
651967Deputy Commander, Navy Personnel CommandReserve, Fleet Support1998 2002 Retired.
661977White House PhysicianMedical Corps2000 2001 Retired. First Filipino-American flag officer.
671973 Director of Intelligence, J2, U.S. Joint Forces CommandIntelligence2000 2005 Retired. First Director, Navy Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance, FORCEnet. First female Intel officer selected for flag rank in the United States Navy.
681977Senior Health Care Executive, U.S. Navy Commander, Navy Medicine Support CommandDental Corps2003 2008? Retired. First female Chief of the Naval Dental Corps, 2003–2007.
691976 Commander, Mine Warfare Command 2005–2006Surface Warfare2003 2007 Retired. First warfare-qualified woman selected for flag rank in the United States Navy.
701980 Deputy Commander, Navy Medicine National Capital AreaReserve2007 Retired.
711984 Director, Systems Engineering National Reconnaissance Office; Commander, SPAWAR Space Field Activity, PEO for Space Systems, USNURL2008 Retired.
721982Director, Medical Service Corps, Commander, Navy Medicine Support Command, Jacksonville, FloridaMSC2009 Retired. 16th director of the Medical Service Corps
731981 Deputy Commander, Navy Recruiting CommandURL2009 Retired.
74?Commander, Navy Cyber ForcesURL2009 Currently on active duty.
751983 Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group TwoSurface Warfare2010 Retired.
761984 Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, Next Generation Enterprise Network URL2010 Retired.
771987Fleet Surgeon, Third FleetNNC2010 Retired.
781981 Deputy Commander, Naval Expeditionary Combat CommandURL 2011 Currently on active duty.
79?? Commander, Navy Recruiting CommandNavy Human Resources Officer2011 Currently on active duty.
801983 Program Executive Officer for Air ASW, Assault & Special Mission Programs, PEOAMDO2011 Currently on active duty.
811988Deputy Commander, Navy Medicine EastNurse Corps2013 Currently on active duty.
82Commander, Navy Region SouthwestEOD/ Diving & Salvage2013 Currently on active duty.
83Deputy Chief of Staff, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Deputy Chief, Navy Reserve Dental CorpsDental Corps2013 Currently on active duty.
841985 Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Korea, Commander, U.S. Navy Region KoreaSWO2013 Currently on active duty.
851981 Deputy Chief of Staff for Fleet Maintenance, Commander, U.S. Pacific FleetReserve EDO2013 Currently serving.
86Commander, Defense Contract Management Agency InternationalReserve Supply Corps2013 Currently serving.
881985 Reserve Deputy, Military Personnel Plans & Policy N13RHR2013 Currently serving.
891985 Commander, Logistics Group Western Pacific, Commander, Task Force 73, Singapore Area CoordinatorSWO2013 Currently on active duty.
901989 Chief of Information PAO2016 Retired August 2017.
911989 Cyber Security Division Director/Deputy Department of the Navy Chief Information OfficerIDWO2017 Currently on active duty.
921962Helicopter captain, HC-3, Naval Air Force Pacific,HC-3 Retired
9319?? Deputy Director of Intelligence, U.S. Forces Afghanistan/Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Headquarters Resolute Support Currently on active duty.
94Linda Wackerman1986First female C9 Squadron CO, VR52; Commander of NEPLO Program; Deputy Director OPNAV N81; Deputy Commander Navy IG; Deputy Commander USNAVSO and US FOURTH FleetNaval Aviator20142018Retired from USN and Pilot for American Airlines

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