For female officers in the Navy and Marine Corps, many options are open to you to serve in assignments vital to our national defense. You may fly planes as a pilot or naval flight officer or drive ships as a surface warfare officer. The Navy is now assigning women to combat vessels following the repeal of the combat exclusion law (Section 6015, Title 10, U.S. Code). Following training, you would be assigned aboard a variety of Navy ships including cruisers, destroyers, aircraft carriers, dock landing ships, oilers, tenders, frigates and supply ships in the Atlantic or Pacific fleets or in aircraft.

Women may also enter restricted line or staff corps specialties such as oceanography intelligence, supply or civil engineering if not physically qualified for aviation, ships or Marine Corps.

You may also choose to enter the Marine Corps. Women Marine Corps officers can be assigned to all career fields available to male officers, except infantry, artillery and armor.

A very limited number of billets in medicine are available each year to both male and female graduates who are accepted for admission by an accredited medical school.