What does DACOWITS stand for?

Defense Advisory Committee On Women In The Service

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of Offense, has let lapse the charter of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.

Flying fickle finger of fate. (don't get me started)

You can't just let women into [infantry units]," argues Elaine Donnelly, a former member of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services who now chairs the Center for Military Readiness, a conservative group that opposes women in combat.

War dames: if America invades Iraq, thousands of female U.S. soldiers ...

The Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services said the Navy should begin by assigning women officers to Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines, the "boomers" that roam the oceans armed with nuclear-tipped missiles.

Navy should let women serve on subs, panel says

Holly Hemphill, who was chairwoman of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services last year, said there was a growing consensus that making women a minority was asking for problems.

TIMES CHANGING IN NAVY BOOT CAMPS

In April 1989 the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service heard testimony from several women who said lesbian baiting was indeed a problem.

Lesbian baiting in the barracks

In a survey sent to 90,000 female soldiers, sailors and fliers by the Pentagon last year, nearly one in 10 Army women reported being sexually assaulted, and six in 10 said they had experienced some form of what they considered sexual harassment, according to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.

ARMY WIDENS INVESTIGATION OF SEX CHARGES