Former NSA director, retired top officers ask Supreme Court to declare military draft unconstitutional February 12 First Lt. Elyse Ping Medvigy, a native of Sebastopol, Calif., fire support officer with Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Inf. Brigade Combat Team, 4th Inf. Division, conducts a call-for-fire during an artillery shoot south of Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 22, 2014. (Staff Sgt. Whitney Houston/Army) The former National Security Agency director and nine prominent retired general and flag officers have signed on to legal brief asking that the U.S. Supreme Court rule that the military draft is unconstitutional. Their filing is in support of a petition that argues the Selective Service System is unconstitutional because it applies only to men ages 18 to 26 and not women.
Battalion of Death : Russia s Controversial Women s Battalion in World War I
The roles of women in World War I took an interesting turn in 1917, when Russia looked to her brave female soldiers to boost morale.
Here s What You Need to Know: Among the so-called Amazons crossing the gender line was Maria “Yasha” Botchkareva.
By spring 1917, Russia had borne the heaviest burden of World War I. Russian reports counted more than six million men killed, wounded, or interned as prisoners of war. This enormous toll had bled the reserve pool of young Russian peasants nearly dry. The Russian Imperial Treasury was effectively bankrupt. Tsar Nicholas was forced to abdicate in March, but the new Russian Revolutionary Provisional Government continued the war against Germany. Its ability to raise morale, however, was scant. Bolshevik antiwar leaflets circulating among the Russian troops already had become one of the German High Command’s most effective weapons on its Eastern Front. Once
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just love. and had it agree with me. i will stay my first interest in the military was after watching a documentary on the first women at west point. and i mentioned wanting to join the service. and my father was very supportive. and as i say, if you re a young girl and your father favors something that you want to do with your life, you tend to you listen. you tend to listen. and you tend to grab ahold of that approval and that encouragement. i want to ask you, it was in the news a bit recently, general james mattis who recently resigned as defense secretary. he was sitting on a stage and he was asked about women in combat. and he talked about women and men in the same units. this is part of what he said. i m not against the issue
too, and worked to lift bans on women in combat. mariner passed away last month, and to her honor at her funeral, the navy performed the first ever all-female flyover. all eight women in the formation were combat veterans. that s amazing. thanks for watching velshi & ruhle. i ll be back at 3:00 p.m. eastern. i m going to watch him at 3:00 p.m. eastern. i ll be back here at 9:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow. right now we hand off to our friend and colleague, miss katy tur. hey, guys. thank you very much. it s 11:00 a.m. out west and 2:00 p.m. in washington where there s another deal on the table to avoid a government shutdown, but will president trump buy it? sir, will you sign congress border deal? i have to study it. i m not happy about it. it s not doing the trick. but i m adding things to it. i don t think you re going to see a shutdown. i wouldn t want to go to it. if you did have it, it s the