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Aug 15, 2017 · WEST POINT, N.Y. — Simone Askew marched into history Monday as the first black woman to lead the Long Grey Line at the U.S. Military Academy.
May 23, 2023 · Women like Maj. Kristen Griest, a tactical officer at West Point, broke new ground, becoming one of the first two women to graduate from Ranger School and serve as the first female Infantry officer.
There were 133 members of the class who attended the U.S. Military Academy Preparatory School (114 men and 19 women). This class also included 21 combat veterans (20 men and one woman).
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Apr 6, 2017 · Kris Fuhr describes some of the struggles she and her classmates faced in the early classes with women at the Academy. She discusses instances of assault, male Cadets answering the door naked, institutionalized harassment in her company, and relationships with male classmates.
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After conducting extensive research and interviews, Kathryn Miller and Kailyn Rowland wrote, directed, and produced a documentary telling the historical journey of the first women to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
Ties of work, affection, and widowhood bound these women together and shaped a compelling and complicated legacy that stretched across antebellum West Point.
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- West Point Department of History
Jul 27, 2018 · Women At West Point. In July 1976, women were admitted to the prestigious West Point military academy in the United States for the first time. Simon Watts talks to Marene Nyberg,...
