Women in the Bangladesh Army

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Female soldiers of Bangladesh Army in parade, 16 December 2016, the Victory Day of Bangladesh. Bangladesh Army female contingent. (31566615061).jpg
Female soldiers of Bangladesh Army in parade, 16 December 2016, the Victory Day of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh Army's ordnance corps soldier in Comilla, 2018. Woman officer of Bangladesh Army at Unnayan Mela 2018 in Comilla Town Hall.jpeg
Bangladesh Army's ordnance corps soldier in Comilla, 2018.

Bangladesh Army was created in 1971 in the Bangladesh Liberation War, and one Bengali female officer from the Pakistan Army's medical corps participated in the war, she was Captain Sitara Begum, who was awarded the Bir Protik medal; she was commissioned into the Pakistan Army Medical Corps as a lieutenant in 1970. She took part in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, after being in the Comilla Cantonment. She was also the commanding officer of a field hospital shortly after the war started. [1]

Susane Giti was the first woman who was promoted to the rank of major-general in 2018, she was from the medical corps. [2] [3]

From the early part of the 2000s decade women are allowed to join every corps and regiments as officers like men though women can't become officers in the infantry regiment and in the armored corps. [4] [5] [6] Captain Zannatul Ferdous became the first female paratrooper in 2013 who was commissioned in December, 2008 from the Bangladesh Military Academy's 59th long course. [7] [8] In 2019, four female officers were made lieutenant colonels and were appointed commanding officers of artillery regiments and engineers battalion. [9] [10] [11] Colonel Nazma Begum was the first female contingent commander in United Nations Peacekeeping Mission, she went to UNOCI in 2016 with a 56-member contingent; as a lieutenant colonel she was the first female commanding officer of the 21st Field Ambulance of the Bangladesh Army. [12] [13]

The first batch of female soldier recruits of the Bangladesh Army completed their training on 29 January 2015 from Ghatail Cantonment. [14] [15] [16] In this batch, total 879 females were enlisted as ordinary soldiers in the army's medical corps. [17] In this year, the army got first female pilots, two women named Nazia Nusrat Hossain and Shahrina Binte Anwar became pilots; Nazia was commissioned in the corps of engineers and Shahrina was commissioned in the ordnance corps, both were commissioned in December 2009, both of them completed their first solo flying training successfully in June, 2015. [18] [19] [20]

In 2022, a wheelchair-bound female officer named Kaniz Fatema was promoted to the rank of Major. [21]

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