It was a dramatic first. The first time in American Naval history that women were assigned to the crew of a ship. On a soggy november 18, 1972, at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in california the uss sanctuary was recommissioned. The first woman admiral elaine dirk gave the commissioning address. The sanctuary is being recommissioned as a new and unusual type of ship with a new mission to assist the navy effort to improve moral and flexibility by home porting combatant ships overseas to provide medical and Resale Services to deploy dependents wherever the fleet may be assigned. In addition to this forward step the sanctuary has been selected as the ship to participate in the Pilot Program which will evaluate the utilization of women for sharp board duty. It will be home for about 80 women, half in the crew and half at the hospital. With these innovations you could see that the sanctuary is truly unique in many respects. The sanctuary is an experiment to see how well women and men can tog
In the mid 70s, with a lot of sunshine. This morning is mostly cloudy and cool with lows near 60 along the lake and 50s inlandreat sleeping weather. After the cool morning, partly cloudy, breezy and cool a lot of alarm clocks are going off early this morning as thosuands of students get ready to go back to school. That means a lot more traffic on the roads. Mps will have more than 75 making their way to 158 schools across the city this morning. Ann sterling joins us live at Sherman Multicultural Arts School today is day one for students here superintendent dr. Driver and mayor tom barrett will help the kids get ready here starting at 7 30 shermais one of the four schools selected to participate in turnaround arts its the Signature Program of the president s committee on arts and humanities. Mps is the only district in the state selected to receive turnaround Arts Education resources as a strategy to close the achievement gap. As for all of Milwaukee Public Schools educators say the foc
Released last week one protester here today said she was disgusted when she read it and in an unprecedented move the Common Council allowed her to make a presentation during this mornings meeting. I think its important for the community to see we are not going to hide from the traditional problems the city of milwaukee has had. We want to demonstrate what open and transparent government looks like dangerous precedent here that we are going to disrupt our Council Meeting son any given occassion by people demanding that they be heard. Specifally the woman who spoke said she was upset over the recommendation to add more officers and deputies. She also said they need to make Community Meetings more accessible to the public so were told the Common Council does plan to hold two Community Meetings before anything in the plan is finalized and those meetings are in the process of being scheduled. We also want to mention this mornings disruption caused the Common Council to cancel a presentation
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