After Outcry from Female Vets in Congress, Pentagon Revives Committee on Women in Service

[rangerrebew]

After Outcry from Female Vets in Congress, Pentagon Revives Committee on Women in Service
 
2 Sep 2021
Military.com | By Hope Hodge Seck

One of the Pentagon's oldest advisory committees has been spared from elimination after female veterans in Congress got wind of the move and protested.

In an Aug. 14 memo obtained by Military.com, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the reinstatement of the 70-year-old Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, known as DACOWITS, which was dissolved at the start of this year as part of a sweeping review of the Pentagon's 42 advisory committees.

"In its 70-year history, DACOWITS has contributed significantly to the Nation, our Armed Forces, and more importantly, to our Service women who serve today, in the past, and in the future," the memo, addressed to the under secretary of defense for Personnel and Readiness, a position freshly filled by Gil Cisneros, states. "I request you target the DACOWITS' work to its core elements and, when appropriate, task work to other DoD Federal advisory committees better suited to address broad, DoD-wide policy issues."
 

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/09/02/after-outcry-female-vets-congress-pentagon-revives-committee-women-service.html

[rangerrebew]

What comes next?  A committee on men under 5'7", on left handed people, for people with bad breath?

[EdinVA]

Austin's wholescale dissolution of the committees and launch of the review was widely seen as an annulment of outgoing President Donald Trump's last-minute efforts to pack multiple advisory panels, including the Defense Business and Defense Policy boards, with his acolytes.

Nothing to do with efficiency or effectiveness, just another attempt to stick a finger in Trump's eye.

[AARguy]

Much ado about nothing. No one wants a draft, not draft age folks, not parents, not grandparents and not even the military. War isn't about massive numbers of bodies versus massive numbers of bodies anymore. And I'll tell you from personal experience, having soldiers in uniform that don't want to be there is more of a burden than an asset.