Servicewomen who are pregnant or have recently given birth are also temporarily medically downgraded.
We are determined to maintain that system, we hope to the benefit of our servicemen and servicewomen.
Servicewomen fill many vital roles in the army, and in some of these important areas there are shortages in the reserve.
British servicemen and servicewomen are showing indispensable commitment, professionalism and courage in a just cause.
The prospective transfer offered the prospect of providing a better planned, better maintained married quarters estate for our servicemen and servicewomen.
In the past service families were looked after very well, in the same manner as the servicemen or servicewomen.
Servicewomen have always undertaken a wide range of duties, although they did not serve in combat roles.
I do not believe that it is sensible to overplay expectations, not least because of the risks faced by our servicemen and servicewomen.
