[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 183 (Tuesday, October 19, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7077]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3862. Mr. SCHUMER (for Mr. Booker) proposed an amendment to the 
resolution S. Res. 267, designating June 12, 2021, as ``Women Veterans 
Appreciation Day''; as follows:

       Beginning in the second whereas clause of the preamble, 
     strike ``Whereas women'' and all that follows through the 
     semicolon at the end of the seventh whereas clause and insert 
     the following:
       Whereas women have formally been a part of the United 
     States Armed Forces since the establishment of the Army Nurse 
     Corps in 1901 but have informally served since the inception 
     of the United States military;
       Whereas over 3,000,000 women have served the United States 
     honorably and with valor on land, on sea, in the air, and in 
     space, including--
       (1) as ``Molly Pitchers'' during the American Revolution, 
     providing support to the Continental Army and taking their 
     place on the artillery gun lines as soldiers fell;
       (2) by passing as men to serve as soldiers during the 
     Revolutionary War, the Early Republic, and the Civil War;
       (3) as doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, and Signal Corps 
     telephone operator ``Hello Girls'' during World War I;
       (4) as, during World War II--
          (A) members of the Women's Army Corps (commonly known as 
     ``WACs'');
          (B) Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service 
     (commonly known as ``WAVES'');
          (C) members of the Coast Guard Women's Reserve (commonly 
     known as ``SPARS'');
          (D) Women Airforce Service Pilots (commonly known as 
     ``WASPs''); and
          (E) nurses;
       (5) as permanent members of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, 
     and Air Force, serving as nurses, physicians, physical 
     therapists, air traffic controllers, intelligence 
     specialists, communications specialists, logisticians, and 
     clerks in the Korean War and Vietnam War; and
       (6) as fixed and rotary wing combat pilots, surface warfare 
     sailors, submariners, artillerists, air defenders, engineers, 
     military police, intelligence specialists, civil affairs 
     specialists, logisticians, and, most recently, in all combat 
     roles in the Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan;
       Whereas, as of April 2020, women constitute approximately 
     17 percent of United States Armed Forces personnel on active 
     duty, including--
       (1) 21 percent of active duty personnel in the Air Force 
     and Space Force;
       (2) 20 percent of active duty personnel in the Navy;
       (3) 15 percent of active duty personnel in the Army;
       (4) 9 percent of active duty personnel in the Marine Corps; 
     and
       (5) 15 percent of active duty personnel in the Coast Guard;
       Whereas, as of September 2019, women constitute nearly 21 
     percent of personnel in the National Guard and Reserves;
       Whereas women have been critical to COVID-19 relief, 
     including as part of the personnel in the National Guard and 
     Reserves activated to support COVID-19 response efforts;
       Whereas, in 2020--
       (1) the population of women veterans reached nearly 
     2,000,000, which represents a significant increase from 
     713,000 women veterans in 1980; and
       (2) women veterans constitute approximately 10 percent of 
     the total veteran population;
       In the eighth whereas clause of the preamble, strike ``4'' 
     and insert ``3''.
       In the tenth whereas clause of the preamble, insert ``a 
     part of the American Folklife Center at the Library of 
     Congress,'' after ``Project,''.
       In paragraph (2) of the eleventh whereas clause of the 
     preamble, strike ``dutiful'' and insert ``patriotic''.

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