Essay On Gender Integrated Training

For the majority of history in the United States Military, women have been faced with strict limitations on what jobs they are entitled to perform, including which unites they are allowed to join. For many years, and still today, military jobs and actions have been seen as the job of men. Men and women of the U.S. military had different training cycles and kept basic training separated. Over the years, many more career fields and opportunities have opened up and expanded to women in the U.S. military, along with gender integrated training. The U.S. military, including the Army, Navy, and Air Force, all practice gender integrated training. The Marine Corps train separately, yet they have a gender integrated program to follow their basic training. The military has employed many different approaches to the integration of men and women during basic training. These approaches range from using the same program of instruction for men and women and integrating some training units to using somewhat different programs of instruction and providing separate training (Gebicke, 1997). …show more content…
The Federal Advisory Committee created a mission to assess the current militant training programs around the U.S. This would help the Committee best decide which approaches to take, in determining effective integrating training for the men and women of the military. The main objective of the U.S. Military’s training program is to create and present top-notch performance and strong, ready forces. After an extensive period of meetings, gatherings, and research, the Committee replied to this request of the Secretary of Defense, and presented their recommendations to improve gender-integrated