DD-SC-19-14731.005, US Marine Corps Photo

Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen hosts members of the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender-Integrated Training and Related Issues for a press conference Dec. 16, 1997, at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Members of the committee joining Cohen are, Nancy Kassebaum Baker, chairman of the committee; John Dancy, former NBC news broadcast journalist; retired U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Donald Gardner, former commander of III Marine Expeditionary Force, Japan; retired U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Richard Allen, former commander, Naval Air Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet; retired Navy Master Chief Petty Officer Ginger Lee Simpson, former director of the U.S. Navy Senior Enlisted Academy; Marilyn V. Yarbrough, a professor at the school of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Deval L. Patrick, former United States assistant attorney general for the civil rights division and partner at Day, Berry and Howard in Boston, Massachusetts.