1991: Martha McSally
Lt. Col. Martha McSally is the first female fighter pilot in combat in the U.S. Air Force. She achieved this first in 1991 after Congress had struck down a law barring women from flying warplanes in combat. McSally has since…
Lt. Col. Martha McSally is the first female fighter pilot in combat in the U.S. Air Force. She achieved this first in 1991 after Congress had struck down a law barring women from flying warplanes in combat. McSally has since…
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Cmdr. Darlene Iskra paved the way for women from the beginning of her career in the Navy. She was one of the first women to graduate from the Naval School of Diving and Salvage as a diving officer, and later…
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They often call being behind the bar being behind the plank. And while that can mean simply standing behind a board, it also brings up the not-so-subtle association with a pirate’s plank. That’s not a random non sequitur, as you will soon see. It could have been any Thursday, Friday or Saturday. It was the […]
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Opha May Johnson became the first female in the United States Marine Corps in 1918. Little is known about her time in the corps, but historians do know she served with 300 other women during World War I. Their role?…
Although women had worked as civilian nurses in the Navy during World War I, they were banned from other positions. That changed in 1917 when Loretta Perfectus Walsh became the first woman to enlist in the Naval Reserves. She was…
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