DACOWITS Decommed
Hegseth terminates women’s advisory group, slams ‘divisive agenda’
By Hope Hodge Seck
The Pentagon has announced plans to terminate a 75-year-old advisory committee serving female service members, citing a “divisive” and harmful agenda — days after a previous memo established plans for reactivating it.
A Sept. 17 memo signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and reviewed by Military Times directs the “formal disestablishment” of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.
“After further review, I have determined that the reinstatement of the Defense Advisory Committee for Women in the Services (DACOWITS) should not proceed,” Hegseth wrote in the memo, addressed to the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness and the director of administration and management. “The Department’s Advisory Committee Management Officer will terminate the DACOWITS in accordance with the requirements of [the Federal Advisory Committee Act]. In addition, the DACOWITS Sponsor will take appropriate action to realign resources associated with the DACOWITS, such as the reassignment of personnel, conclusion of contracts, and the archiving of DACOWITS’ records.”
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“After further review, Secretary Hegseth has decided to terminate the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services,” Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson said in the statement. “The Committee is focused on advancing a divisive feminist agenda that hurts combat readiness, while Secretary Hegseth has focused on advancing uniform, sex-neutral standards across the Department.”
“Pregnant” flight suits was my personal Waterloo on Women-In-Combat. Enough already.
Category: Big Pentagon
“DACOWITS”
Women in the Services….. ಠ_ಠ 🙄 🤦♂️
DIMWITZZ
Looks like tough titties ahead.
That tit kles me…….
They wanted equality, they got equality. Why would they still need a special committee to make sure they get special treatment in their equality? You don’t get to pick and choose when to be special.
You get ALL of the equality. Not just the part you want. Now, let’s talk about this draft registration thing, Pete…
That!
19th goes or sign the F up.
Tired of this two-tiered BS.
Yup, and let’s do away with the bullshit of giving the female officers going to Ranger School over a month of prep training, plus multiple recycles and special lane graders to pass them on their patrols. Every patrol evaluator in my class was a senior NCO or a captain, not a general or field grade officer working on his career path to the stars.
Thank God I got my Tab before women were allowed in.
I recall that soon after CPT Kathleen Wilder “graduated” the Special Forces Qualification Course in August 1980, one of our RIs quipped “The day a crack troop enters Ranger School is the day I remove my Tab.” He probably retired before he had to remove his Tab.
Oh, boo hoo.
Can you do the job you signed up to do based upon the one (1) standard alloted? If the answer is yes, proceed. If the answer is no then you have two (2) options: Train harder or find another path. There is no shame. All are able to try. MEET OR EXCEED THE STANDARD!!!! Combats second place trophy is written in stone. Just remember oh vaulted ones who do succeed. You did not succeed alone!!!!