Women In the U.S. Military

[Gregory Matthews]

Women in Combat:  I often tell people that I am the first U.S. Army Chaplain in modern times to go into combat with a COED unit.  What most people do not know, is that 885 female members of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion served in Europe during World war II.  See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6888th_Central_Postal_Directory_Battalion

NOTE:  Later this year a movie about this unit, titled Six Triple Eight will be released to theaters.