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July 7, 1976
- Exactly ten months later, on July 7, 1976, the first 119 women arrived at West Point for “Reception Day” and the start of their Cadet Basic Training.
www.thenmusa.org/articles/first-class-of-women-at-west-point/Pride and Excellence: The First Class of Women at West Point
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Oct 27, 2010 · On the morning of July 7, 1976, 119 women joined the Corps of Cadets, establishing the first class of females at The United States Military Academy at West Point. Of those, 62 women walked...
The next year, 1977, a second class of 104 women arrived at West Point. This time, West Point integrated them into every cadet company, with the first class of women reorganized to provide them supervision. The result was a dramatic drop in resignations.
May 1, 2012 · Hostility—in many forms—greeted the first women in 174 years to join the all-male Corps of Cadets when we arrived in 1976. Ultimately, 62 of my 119 sisters graduated four years later in 1980. West Point was my first exposure to harsh words and disrespectful responses from people who did not know me personally.
May 27, 2020 · West Point was founded in 1802, but until that July day in 1976 when Gucwa, Allison, Fulton, Barkalow, Locke and 114 other women arrived along the banks of the Hudson River, each of the...
The first women cadets arrived at West Point on July 7, 1976. Four years later, 62 of those women graduated on May 28, 1980, and were commissioned as second lieutenants.
May 18, 1977 · Some guys had a girl back home in Iowa, who was visited on long leaves and was written to religiously, and a working girl in the city, who was visited more frequently. The former was treated with...
May 28, 2015 · The Class of 1980 broke ground as the first to have women graduate from the U.S. Military Academy (USMA), the Naval Academy, the Air Force Academy, and the Coast Guard Academy.
