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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.
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.
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...
Aug 31, 2017 · Only two civilian women lie buried in the cemetery at the U.S. Military Academy. Susan and Anna Warner earned this signal honor as Sunday school teachers to generations of West Point cadets.
Jul 27, 2018 · 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, one of the first female intake.
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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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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