Women in the Military

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Drawing of a woman in the army. This drawing is not based on anyone in real life I just draw it. :D --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **FACTS** 1. Cathay Williams was the First African American female to enlist in the U.S. Army as a man. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. In 1917 Loretta Walsh became the first woman to enlist as a woman. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. The first 20 women of the Corps were known as “The Sacred Twenty.” --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Women were officially allowed to join the U.S. military during last two years of World War I, and 33,000 of them signed up to work as nurses and in other support roles. More than 400 nurses died serving America during the Great War. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. During WWII, hundreds of women participated in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program. These pioneer female pilots helped test and ferry military aircraft around the country and were led by Jacqueline Cochran, the first woman to break the sound barrier. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. In 1998, Cmdr. Maureen A. Farren became the first woman to lead a combatant ship, the USS Mount Vernon. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. In 2016, Capt. Kristen Griest became the first female Army infantry officer in the nation’s history. A year earlier, Griest and Lt. Shaye Haver were also the first women to graduate from the Army’s famed Ranger School. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. Women were allowed to begin attending the four service academies in 1976. Four years later, the first 54 female students graduated from these academies. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Navy Rear Adm. Grace Hopper was one of the first and most influential computer programmers. Hopper played an important role in the development of the COBOL programming language and helped shape how programmers code today. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. Adm. Michelle Howard (Ret.) made history in 2014 when she became the first four-star woman in Navy history. Howard served as commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe before retiring in 2017. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------