[3] Section 502 of the act limited service of women by excluding them from aircraft and vessels of the Navy that might engage in combat.
According to Bettie Morden: "These men believed that women should not be admitted to the Regular Army until their peacetime service could be studied and observed.
On March 23, 1948, The committee rejected regular status and rewrote and re-titled the bill as the "Women's Armed Services Reserve Act of 1948."
These cold war developments and the Army's inability to recruit enough men for an all-volunteer force led President Truman to ask for a peacetime draft.
The original wording of the bill was restored with two amendments: a limit on the number of women in regular status between 1948 and 1950 and provision that female officers would be commissioned in multiple increments instead of just one.
Morden states that "House members were satisfied that these amendments would deter indiscriminate commissioning and enlisting of women and prevent any suggestion of favored treatment.
[5] The Navy swore in its first six women enlistees on July 7, 1948,[6] and later that year commissioned as a lieutenant commander Frances Lois Willoughby, who had served in World War II in the Naval Reserve, its first female doctor.
[10] This regulation remained in place until federal legislation in the 1970s established the inclusion of women with children in the armed forces.