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| 1995 Chilean Military Parade | |
|---|---|
| Date | 19 September 1995 |
| Venue | O'Higgins Park |
| Locations | Santiago, Chile |
| Country | Chile |
The 1995 Chilean Military Parade was held at O'Higgins Park in Santiago on 19 September 1995 to commemorate the Day of the Glories of the Army.[1]
Presided over by President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle,[2] the military parade involved contingents of the Chilean Armed Forces and Carabineros de Chile. Army commander-in-chief Augusto Pinochet was among the senior military authorities attending the ceremony.[3]
The parade was notable for the participation of female officer cadets of the Military School. The school's female sub-lieutenant cadets headed the presentation of the officer-training academies, marking a milestone in the incorporation of women into the traditional march-past.[4]
Background
[edit]The participation of female cadets occurred during a major change in the training of female Army officers. Until 1995, women received separate military training through institutions established specifically for female personnel. That system was discontinued when the Army adopted a policy under which women would instead receive their training at the Military School.[5][6]
Women were consequently admitted to the Military School alongside male cadets in 1995.[7] The school's 1995 yearbook described the appearance of the Female Company in the institution's traditional blue cadet uniform as one of the year's significant developments.[8]
Parade
[edit]The ceremony followed the traditional presentation of Chile's military and police institutions, with the officer-training academies preceding the institutional contingents.
The presentation of the military academies was particularly notable. According to La Tercera, after 163 years of the ceremony's history, women were incorporated into this portion of the parade, with the female sub-lieutenant cadets of the Military School heading the passage of the officer-training academies.[4]
The Military School's contemporary yearbook records that the female cadets formed a separate Female Company and that their appearance at the 1995 Military Parade attracted considerable attention from both the press and spectators.[8]
The parade subsequently continued with contingents representing the Chilean Navy, Chilean Air Force, Carabineros and the Chilean Army. The Army formed the final institutional component of the march-past.
Participation of women
[edit]The participation of the Military School's female cadets was regarded as one of the principal innovations of the 1995 parade.[5][8][4] Their appearance formed part of a broader process of integrating women into the Army's regular officer-training system.[6]
Women had previously participated in military-parade activities in other capacities. In 1962, for example, Army nurses passed through the parade ground aboard military vehicles. The 1995 ceremony was distinguished by the incorporation of female cadets into the marching formation of the military academies.[4]
The change coincided with the end of the Army's separate female officer-training system and the incorporation of women into the Military School.[6][7]
References
[edit]- ↑ Gran Parada Militar 1995 (video completo) (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 September 2026 – via YouTube.
- ↑ Militares silbaron al presidente Eduardo Frei en el desfile 1995 (in Spanish). Di Film. Retrieved 20 September 2026 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "La Parada Militar y sus curiosas historias a lo largo de los años". BioBioChile (in Spanish). 18 September 2024. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Historias de la Parada Militar: su origen, la primera "chicha en cacho" y el desaire al Presidente al inicio de la transición". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 September 2026.
- 1 2 "Mujeres en las Fuerzas Armadas (1995-2010)". Biblioteca Nacional de Chile (in Spanish). Memoria Chilena. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 Mujeres en el Ejército de Chile (PDF) (in Spanish). Biblioteca Nacional de Chile. Retrieved 20 September 2026 – via Memoria Chilena.
- 1 2 "Un paso importante para la mujer en la Escuela Militar". Ejército de Chile (in Spanish). Chilean Army. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 Anuario Escuela Militar 1995 (PDF) (in Spanish). Escuela Militar del Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins. 1995. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
