Happy Memorial Day
Originally known as Decoration Day, Memorial Day is a federal holiday celebrated in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. From 1868 to 1970, it was observed on May 30. Since 1971, it is observed on the last Monday of May.
According to Wikipedia the total death toll of American military personnel is estimated to be between 650,000 to 850,000. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, 140,181 American troops died in combat during 5 conflicts combined. The total for 4 of the conflicts varies slightly from official tallies. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, 53,402 Americans died in combat during World War 1; 33,739 during the Korean War; and 47,434 during the Vietnam War.
The Department of Defense listed nearly 1.29 million people as active-duty troops, and 767,238 as National Guard/Reserves.
The U.S. Armed Forces is the world's third largest military by active personnel, after the Chinese's People's Liberation Army and the Indian Armed Forces.
In the United States, active-duty Armed Forces personnel tended to be young, with the majority under the age of 30. In 2022, there were 567,025 U.S. Defense Armed personnel aged 25 and under. In the age group 26 to 30, there were 283,287 Armed Forces personnel.
Women make up 17.3% of the active-duty force, totaling 231,741 members; and 21.4% of the National Guard and Reserves at 171,000 members. Over 3 million women have served in or with the Armed Forces since the American Revolution.
In the spring of 1917, the United States began preparing for the inevitability of war. However, men were not enlisting in sufficient numbers. On March 19, 1917, Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels determined that women could be enrolled in the U.S. Naval Reserve Force and issues an order authorizing their enlistment. A few days later, permission was granted to enlist one woman, with the idea that the enlistment of a woman might prompt young men to enlist. Loretta Walsh was asked if she would enlist in the Naval Reserve Force as a chief yeoman. She immediately agreed.
On March 21, 1917, after procuring and modifying a male chief petty officer's uniform, Loretta Walsh made history by enlisting in the Naval Reserve -- the first woman to officially enlist in the military, and also the first female chief petty officer.
She became the first of more than 12,000 women to serve in the military during the war.
Fun Military Female Facts:
Queen Elizabeth was only 18 years old when she begged her father, King George VI, to take part in helping out during World War II.
She joined the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service in England that same year and was known as "Second Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor," according to the National Archives.
While serving, the young queen drove military trucks and trained as a mechanic -- making her, to this day, the only female member of the Royal Family to enter the armed forces.
Most know Harriet Tubman for her groundbreaking work with the Underground Railroad and, later, as an abolitionist, but as National Geographic reported, Tubman was also an integral part of the Civil War.
In 1863, Tubman and Colonel James Montgomery led a group of soldiers in freeing slaves from plantations in South Carolina, making Tubman the first woman in the US history to lead a military expedition, according to National Geographic.
Her work continued as a spy and recruiter for the Union Army. This operation was so covert that only President Lincoln knew about it.
Tubman received compensation for her military contribution's decades later, in 1899. Thomas B. Allen, the author of "Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent," called Tubman "one of the great heroines of the Civil War."
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