First female lieutenant general in the U.S. Armed Forces. During a 2014 interview for the documentary Unsung Heroes: The Story of America’s Female Patriots, Mutter explains why she joined the Marine Corps during the early years of the Vietnam War. “Because they’re the best, there’s no...
1849 - First Female Doctor in the United States Elizabeth Blackwell (February 3, 1821 – May 31, 1910) was a British physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council. Blackwell...
There are 21 female general officers in the Army - all but four at the one-star rank of brigadier. It was not until 1970 that the Army had its first one-star: Anna Mae Hays, chief of the Army Nurse Corps.
Women Power in Army (4); First Female General Expected in 2002Two words that are not associated with each other in Korea _ like in most other countries _ are women and military as women are excluded from military service obligation.Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)...
For US Army Capt. Molly Murphy, the hardest part of the Army’s grueling Ranger Course was the very first day. “I did not sleep at all the night before, I was so scared, way in over my head,” she told CNN. Murphy, who currently works as a pediatric intensive care unit nurse at...
DE-SEN:Democrat Lisa Blunt Rochester will be the first Black and first female senator from Delaware, CNN projects, winning an open seat to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Tom Carper, her onetime boss. Blunt Rochester, who is in her fourth term representing Delaware’s at-large US House distr...
Some of the women who followed have wielded political influence, some have helped with their husband's public image, and some stayed well out of the public eye. A few presidents have also called on other female relatives to carry on the more public roles of a First Lady. Learn more about...
brilliantly in combat, just look theUSSR in World War 2for confirmation. You can also read about someindividual female snipersin our history section as well. But for the first time in US Army history, a female soldier is now a fully qualified sniper and has been awarded the coveted B4 ...
In the photograph that would make Parker the most notorious female of the Depression era, she stands looking directly into the camera with her foot on the front bumper of a Ford V8, one arm propped on a headlamp, the other on her hip, holding a 0.45 caliber Colt revolver (Guinn, 2009)...
The Phoenix Saga was more than just a revival of Jean Grey’s character, however: it marked a turning point in Marvel’s portrayal of female heroes in general. To be fair, things weren’t (and still aren’t) perfect, but it was during the Phoenix Saga that the publisher began making ...