- Author
- White, R. M. | Desantis, G.
- Title
- Impact of Female Anthropometry on the U.S. Army.
- Coporate
- Army Natick Research and Development Command, MA
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- clothing | females | sampling | surveys | human factors engineering
- Identifiers
- anthropometry; Army personnel; sizes (dimensions); strength (physiology)
- Abstract
- During the pase 30 years, several major anthropometric surveys have been carried out in the U.S. Army. Large numbers of both men and women were measured in 1946, at the end of World War II. Army men were measured again in 1966, while Army aviation personnel were measured in 1959, and again in 1970. The most recent survey of Army women was made in 1977. A small sample of men also was measured in order to obtain directly comparable data. The importance of the latter anthropometric survey of U.S. Army women is the subject of this paper.