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Please excuse me, my first try at this has not shown up. I have started research on a TL. POD is January 22, 1977. The 28th amendment(ERA) is enacted. Jimmy Carter had been sworn in the day before. Google has given me sites on people, ERA, military and general history. I will put my spin here. To me, President Carter was soft. In this TL, at the first meeting with the JCS, he starts with an exe-cutive order opening all jobs in the military to women. Combat forces must ac-cept qualified women.He makes it plain that in little(Navy stops payments to Tailhook) and large(All branches WILL stop bad actions against women)matters. In rest of his mandate, President Carter backs up the order with courts martial. Depending on crime, punish goes as far as hanging. Generals and admirals face the worst instead of getting passes. Is this too far out of his character? The politics not right? All comments welcome.
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