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Identifier	Thesis 2006
Author	Langbeen, Desirée Leah
Title	Aye Aye….Ma'am? The Coast Guard Academy's First Female Students
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2009
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The United States Coast Guard Academy was the only military service academy to change its policy to allow women to apply to the school, before legislation forced each federally funded military institute to do so. The purpose of this research study was to compare the experiences of the first women at the Coast Guard Academy (which has very little representation in history) to those of the first women at the Naval Academy and West Point. Using articles from the Coast Guard Academy's service magazines, interviews with members of the Class of 1980, local newspaper articles, and books written about the experiences of women at West Point and the Naval Academy, this study attempts to reconstruct and compare the lives of the first women to attend these military schools. The following research study shows that, while the women of the Class of 1980 at all the service academies faced resentment and abuse from their classmates and members of their respective military communities, the women of the Coast Guard Academy were not as badly mistreated as those at West Point or the Naval Academy. The introduction of women into the service academies was a turning point in military history. It was the first time women were allowed to be trained at these prestigious academies and their personal stories to persevere in a resentful and oftentimes hostile environment are practically absent in history. This study is meant to draw attention to the women behind the statistics and give a voice to their tale of struggle and sacrifice to become the first female officers to graduate from the service academies.
Subject	United States Coast Guard Academy Women military cadets -- United States
Department	Department of History
Advisor	Warshauer, Matthew, 1965-
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713733995
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