President Joe Biden and other past and present U.S. officials are honoring the late defense secretary, Ash Carter, who opened the way for women to fight in combat and for transgendered personnel to serve.
FILE - Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is interviewed in his Pentagon office, Jan. 18, 2017. President Joe Biden and other past and present U.S. officials are honoring Ash Carter, the late defense secretary who opened the way for women to fight in combat and transgendered personnel to serve, at a memorial service Thursday., Jan. 12, 2023. Carter, 68, died in October of a heart attack. – President Joe Biden and past and present U.S.
Carter immediately saw his tenure challenged by the rise of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria and China’s rapid militarization of islands in the South China Sea, even as the administration tried to shift its aircraft and warships to the Pacific to meet a rising Beijing. During a 35-year career in a variety of Pentagon roles, Carter pushed through what he would continue to cite as one of his proudest accomplishments: the effort to speed the design and production of a new uparmored vehicle to better protect troops against roadside bombs. More than 24,000 Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles were manufactured and shipped to Iraq and Afghanistan.
But it was two personnel policies as secretary that would mark Carter's legacy: opening all combat roles to women in 2015, and allowing transgender personnel to serve. In the years since, female troops have broken through a variety of combat roles that were previously unavailable to them, including the first women to graduate U.S. Army Ranger School, the first Army female infantry officer, the first Army
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