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Women in the U.S. Army
From the American Revolutionary #War to the present day overseas contingency operations, #women have served a vital role in the U.S. #Army. As women expanded into different roles in the #USArmy, it was clear that the heart of a warrior was not limited to one gender. http://www.army.mil/women/
Retired Col. Sally Murphy checks out a Black Hawk helicopter at Fort Myer Wednesday during a Freedom Team Salute program honoring her as the first woman to complete Army flight school at Fort Rucker in 1974 and became the Army's first female helicopter pilot.
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From left to right: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Elizabeth Kimbrough, Capt. Donna J. Buono, Chief Warrant Officer 4 Anne Wiley, and Capt. Carmel Cammack, all leaders within Task Force Palehorse, join for a group shot in front of an AH-64 Apache at their landing pads on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. All four of the women fly either Apaches or OH-58D Kiowas. Wiley serves as the unit's senior standardization instructor pilot and is the first to hold that position at a squadron level.
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A female engagement team, comprised of members of the Nangarhar Provincial Reconstruction Team, Agribusiness Development Team, and individual district support teams throughout Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, hand out surveys during an all female shura in Mohmand Dara, Dec. 6, 2011. By surveying women in all the districts of Nangarhar, the female engagement team will identify key women's issues.
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U.S. Army 1st Lt. Rebecca Wagner, Mahomet, Ill., effects coordinator and female engagement team officer in charge, Headquarters Headquarters Company, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, International Assistance Security Force, counts with the Afghan children of the Red Crescent Society orphanage and school Feb. 12 when the 4th CAB delivered school supplies, clothing items and toys. Photo by U.S. Army Spc. Jeanita C. Pisachubbe, 4th CAB Public Affairs
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Spc. Crisma Albarran, of Orland, Calif., detaches an ammunition case from its mount after a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter flight over Iraq, March 14, 2010. Albarran with Task Force 38's B Company, 3rd Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment, volunteered for the job as door gunner prior to her second deployment to Iraq, and has flown more than 100 hours toward her door gunner certification. During her first Iraqi deployment in 2007 she was a petroleum supply specialist with the 3rd Infantry Division
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Pfc. Anna Ciamaichelo, I Battery, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, unloads the FIM-92 Stinger missile she is about to fire. The purpose of the Stinger live-fire exercise was to the prepare Soldiers on how to engage hostile aircraft. U.S. Army photo by Casey Slusser
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Pfc. Anna Ciamaichelo, I Battery, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, unloads the FIM-92 Stinger missile she is about to fire. The purpose of the Stinger live-fire exercise was to the prepare Soldiers on how to engage hostile aircraft. U.S. Army photo by Casey Slusser
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Under Secretary of the Army Joseph W. Westphal administers the oath of office to Maj. Gen. Karen Dyson, August 27, 2012 at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, Va. Dyson is currently the director for Army Budget, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management Comptroller). She is the first female Army Finance Corps officer to achieve the rank of major general. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller)
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U.S. Army Spc. Tiffany Larriba, team member from Civil Affairs Team 4902, 490th Civil Affairs Battalion, smiles at a child from the village of Karabti San, Djibouti, January 3. Children from the village gathered later that evening for Larriba's "Soldier in the Classroom" program where she taught them basic English. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jarad A. Denton
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"Major Butch" a therapy dog with the 219th Medical Detachment (Combat Operational Stress Control) concludes her tour interacting with service members in Afghanistan at Bagram Air Field, Feb. 1. The 85th Med. Det. (COSC) from Fort Hood, Texas, assumes the various 219th missions at the transfer of authority ceremony held here today. (DoD photo by Maj. Charles Patterson, Task Force MED-A Public Affairs/Released)
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Spc. Elizabeth Matos, 892nd MRBC, 190th En. Bn., Puerto Rico National Guard, helps assemble a bridge during unit certification. The Soldiers are currently training with recently acquired bridges while their personnel get certified in operation, assembly and disassembly. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Joseph Rivera Rebolledo
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One Direction @U.S. Army - I just wanted to say thank you, thank you SO much for serving our country. Love you guys!
Spc. Brittany McGee (front), a field artillery surveyor for the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, and Soldiers with a light infantry squad from the 4-25th, stand on a mountain during a foot patrol in December 2011, in Paktya Province, Afghanistan. McGee was a member of the brigade's Female Engagement Team during the deployment.
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Sgt. Shawnte Rollins (right), a field artillery surveyor for the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, and a member of the brigade's female engagement team, along with Afghan National Security troops, collects information from motorists passing through checkpoint March 30, 2012, at the Chenigai Pass in Bak District, Afghanistan.
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Recruiting Poster circa 1943. "Are you a girl with star-spangled heart?--Join the WAC now!--Thousands of Army jobs need filling!"
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Dawn Mesa My grandmother was a WAC :)
Amber Bellikka I ama girl with a star spangled heart- an army wife raising 2 girls with star spangled hearts!! ♥
Spc. Monica Brown. Silver Star. 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. War in Afghanistan.
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Diana M. Rodriguez Rock Star!
Allison Barksdale My Great Grandmother was the first woman awarded the Silver Star in World War II. Her Name was Mary Roberts Wilson.
Brig. Gen. Anna Mae Hays received a commission in the Army Nurse Corps in May 1942. Her overseas assignments included service in India, Korea, and Japan. On June 11, 1970, she became the first woman and the first nurse in American military history to attain general officer rank. During her tenure as chief she continued to deal with the imposing challenges of recruitment and retention as the Vietnam War reached its height.
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From 1942 to 1945, Col. Oveta Culp Hobby served as Director of the Women's Army Corps, and as a result of the success she achieved at this position, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. In 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower named her head of the Federal Security Agency and later that year she was elevated to a cabinet position in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as its first Secretary, a position she held until 1955.
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Women's Army Corps members run an obstacle course during basic training with the 1st WAC Basic Training Battalion, Fort Belvoir, Va.
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The class of 1980 women pose for a group photo. Sixty-two of the 119 women who entered West Point, July 7, 1976, became the first women graduates four years later. #women #Army #USArmy #military #gender #equality #service #WestPoint
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In 1976, 119 female cadets, a few of them seen here with their male counterparts, became the first women to join the Corps of Cadets at The United States Military Academy at West Point. Of the original 119, 62 graduated in 1980.
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Andrea Hollen, the first woman to receive her diploma from West Point, was also the academy's first woman to earn a Rhodes scholarship.
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The first female cadets at West Point were held to the same academic, leadership, discipline and physical standards as their male peers. This year marked the 30th anniversary of the first coed graduation at The United States Military Academy at West...
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Pfc. Janice Hayes participates in a field exercise in April 1974.
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1st Lt. Jacqueline L. Wolfe, unit officer, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, and officer-in-charge, HHC Drill Team, presents the drill team to Maj. Dorothy L. Love, commanding officer, HHC, United States Women's Army Corps Center, June 29, 1967.
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Newly arrived Women's Army Auxiliary Corps recruits march at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, in 1942.
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Pvts. Rita Johnson (left) and Joyce Kutsch are capped with the Airborne Parachute Rigger's Red Cap Apr. 1, 1974, by Col. Louis Peterka, director, Airborne Department, Quartermaster Center at Fort Lee, Va., after completing the Parachute Maintenance and Air Delivery Course. Johnson and Kutsch were the first two women to graduate from the course.
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Women's Army Corps members run an obstacle course during basic training with the 1st WAC Basic Training Battalion, Fort Belvoir, Va.
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USO She was also quite popular at the Bagram USO!