America has been debating the role of women in combat since 1779. That’s when the Continental Congress first awarded a military disability pension to Mary Corbin after she manned a cannon in the Revolutionary War at the battle of Fort Washington in New York. Read more from NPR.org.
Corbin got only half the pension male soldiers received, but she asked for — and received — the full ration of rum.
As the Pentagon decides how to remove the combat exclusion, reports say women still have trouble getting fully recognized for what they’ve achieved at war.
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