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Jan 12, 2022 · Leslie’s TEDx talk is on how women at West Point, a military institution that was all men for the first 174 years of its existence, “broke the mold” of the traditional model cadet, a man....
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Leslie’s TEDx talk is on how women at West Point, a military institution that was all men for the first 174 years of its existence, “broke the mold” of the traditional model cadet, a man. Over the past 40+ years, women at West Point have helped create a new model cadet to which all cadets can aspire.
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...
Jul 7, 1976 · #1. 1976 Female cadets enrolled at West Point. For the first time in history, women are enrolled into the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. On May 28, 1980, 62 of these female cadets graduated and were commissioned as second lieutenants.
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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Since that inaugural class of 1980, West Point women have served as the surgeon general of the Army, dean of academics at West Point, and the commandant of cadets at West Point. Younger generations of women who graduated from West Point continue to shape the Army today.
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It's Women's History Month and WPAOG would like to salute all of the women graduates of West Point. Since the first women entered the Academy in 1976, West Point women have continued to strengthen the legacy of the Long Gray Line.
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- West Point Association of Graduates
