Word: servicewomen
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...Navy salvage vessel in the Pacific is overheard offering to "sell" women crew members to Koreans.At the huge U.S. naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines, local go-go girls strip in the sailors' clubs while prostitutes circulate among the tables, much to the dismay of U.S. servicewomen seeking relaxed meals outside the mess halls. In the adjacent bar-studded town of Olongapo, women on liberty from the Navy and Marines are "grabbed on the streets by the military men, treating them as though they were free game...
...Hawaii, the Philippines and Japan, the investigators concluded that in both services "the encouragement of a macho-male image contributes to behavior that is at best inappropriate and at worst morally repugnant." Both men and women in the Navy and Marines sometimes demand sexual favors from lower-ranking servicewomen, the investigators found...
...case holding that servicewomen have the same right to benefits for their spouses as servicemen do, Brennan reviewed the status of women...
...deteriorated condition of our facilities in Europe is inconsistent with our commitments there. It is time to accept our responsibilities to American servicemen and servicewomen overseas by providing decent, even attractive, working and living conditions...
Despite the isolation, families are often reluctant to leave when their two-or three-year assignments are over. Many of them volunteer for another tour. So do the unmarried servicemen, which says something about the quality of the fishing and sailing since there are only 250 single servicewomen on the base. Navy Chief Jim Starr explains why his wife and two teenage daughters are delighted with Gitmo: "We haven't been together this long since 1959." The climate is particularly popular with many Americans. Says Nieta Morrison, wife of the base's executive officer: "I feel like...