ACLU, military women's group sue Defense Department for Naval Academy records on female midshipmen

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'Advocates for military women are suing the Department of Defense for information about how the Naval Academy and the other military service academies recruit female students — part of a campaign, they say, to expose ongoing gender bias at the elite training grounds for the nation's officer corps.
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A spokesman for the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs — where the superintendent is a woman — said cadets are selected without reference to gender, and they gain opportunities by earning them.

"In the military, we are rewarded for performance," Lt. Col. Brus Vidal said. "The airplane doesn't care if you're male or female."