Roles For Women In The Military The United States of America has come to depend on their massive military machine throughout its relatively short history. During the Revolutionary war, only men fought bravely on the bloody battlefields of New England, while the women performed their much-needed duties at home. They ran the household, and tended to their flocks, while their loved ones were fighting the British. At that time, there wasn’t a so-called “shortage” of manpower to fill in the ranks of soldiers in their column marches. It took a man to load a muzzle, or fix a bayonet to pierce