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- First Lieutenant Merriann E. McBride McKillip, in a presentation at the Glendale Federal Savings and Loan in Laguna Hills, CA, discusses her service in the U.S. Army Reserve Ordnance Corp and her deployment for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. McKillip talks about graduating from ROTC in 1986, the job of the Ordinance Corps to deploy transportation and field service units and being sent to Korea, Honduras, and Japan on training exercises. She also talks about the role of women in the service, women in command positions, gender discrimination in the military, and adapting to everyday life in Saudi Arabia. McKillip answers questions from the audience about sexual assault in the military, female soldiers who are pregnant at the time of deployment, how military families deal with childcare during mobilization, and the growing number of women in the military. Ends abruptly. The recording is introduced by Vivian Peterson.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-11-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
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- Ruth Weisberg says, in an oral history interview, that she joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, which later became the Women's Army Corps, in February 1943. Weisberg recalls receiving training at several bases in the U.S. before going back to New York to embark for Europe in late 1943 on a ship with the 101st Airborne Division. Her first assignment overseas, Weisberg says, was with the Military Attache in the American Embassy in London where she handled secret communications. The classified nature of her work prevented her from getting acquainted with many people, she says, but she did meet and marry an officer from the 101st Airborne in January 1944 and left the service in July 1945 to become a dependent army wife.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project