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When Lynda Voltz joined the Australian military police in 1987, she did the same job as her male counterparts. "There were three of us and we did 24-hour military patrols. I would go out there and patrol alone, and the blokes who did them with me would also patrol alone. There was absolutely no difference in the tasks we did," she says. Now a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council and an MP for Kevin Rudd's Labor Party, Voltz says she joined the military police because in 1987 it was the only military corps in which...
...Things in the Australian Defense Force (ADF) have changed since Voltz's days. Now 92% of military roles are available to women, and in a drive to make Australia's army even more female friendly, the government is looking at opening up the other eight. On Sep. 8 the Defense Science and Personnel Minister, Greg Combet told Parliament that the Defense Science and Technology Organization at Wollongong University will start the long process of evaluating the physical standards for all military tasks. This will take several years, but once the results are in, all branches of the ADF will...
...Mickey Voltz won the ensuing faccoff and Tom Corcoran took the ball in for the final shot. But Corcoran's shot bounced awry, and Harvard was left with another narrow defeat
Eliot took the second-half kickoff, and hard-nosed running back Mickey Voltz spear headed a strong offensive drive. But Voltz & Co. only got as far as the Quincy 45, where Hall fumbled the ball into the waiting arms of a swarming Quincy defensive line...
...That was the game plan," said Voltz. "We just marched the ball up the middle...