Recommendations:

1. Navy Assignment of Women to the Combat Logistics Force (CLF)
DACOWITS recommends that the Navy consider taking such steps as are necessary to permit the utilization of women as members of the crews of Combat Logistics Force ships.

2. Navy study group issues
DACOWITS is concerned that the following Navy issues should be among those reviewed and dealt with in concert by the Task Force as they are all interrelated with the critical concerns of the DACOWITS regarding the full utilization of Navy Women and the opportunities for career advancement of Navy women within statutory limitations.

a. Assignment of Women to Combat Logistics Force

b. 600 Ship Navy

c. General Unrestricted Line (GURL)

d. Surface Program to Upgrade Readiness (SPUR) or its equivalent

e. Navy ships to which women may be assigned

f. P-3 Aircrew assignments

g. Assignment of Coast Guard personnel to Navy ships

3. Marine Corps study group issues
DACOWITS is concerned that the following Marine Corps issues should be reviewed and dealt with in concert by the Task Force as these are all interrelated with the critical concerns of the DACOWITS regarding the full utilization of Marine Corps women and their opportunities for career advancement within statutory limitations.

a. Status of women as Aircrew members in the C-130, C-12 and helicopter communities.

b. Participation of women in the recruiting field, and availability of CO and XO billets to women officers.

c. Number of women officers as NROTC instructors and current policies regarding their assignment to this duty.

d. Consideration of women for 9910 billets - those specialty immaterial billets that can be filled by anunrestricted woman officer in a ground MOS.

e. Status of women in OCS, including percentages of and reasons for attrition, and numbers and percentages of college graduates.

f. Status of Women Marine Corps Officer Review and plans for its implementation.

g. The status of women in regard to various MOS’s, including MOS’s which are open to women, and if closed, why; where open, the number of women assigned to the MOS; the percentage of billets in each MOS available to women;

4. Assignment of Women as Security Guards to American Embassies
DACOWITS recommends that the Marine Corps review the assignment of women as embassy security guards on a country by country basis.

5.Establishment of a Methodology to review Coast Guard attrition
DACOWITS recommends that the Coast Guard develop and maintain a standard system which identifies by sex the specific reason or reasons personnel are separating from the Service.

6. Study of Women at the Naval Academy
DACOWITS recommends that the Coast Guard develop and maintain a standard system which identifies by sex the specific reason or reasons personnel are separating from the Service.

DACOWITS recommends that the findings of the Naval Academy Study on women midshipmen be shared with the other Service Academies.

Chair: Dr. Jacquelyn K. Davis