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1. www.thenmusa.org › articles › first-class-of-womenPride and Excellence: The First Class of Women at West Point

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   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.

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3. www.imdb.com › title › tt0080146Women at West Point (TV Movie 1979) - IMDb

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   Women at West Point: Directed by Vincent Sherman. With Linda Purl, Leslie Ackerman, Jameson Parker, Andrew Stevens. The story of the first women to enter the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and how they--and the school--faced the resultant problems.

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   • Director: Vincent Sherman
   • Release Date: 1979-02-27

4. www.cbsnews.com › news › 35-years-since-women-brokeFirst female West Point graduate reflects on historic anniversary

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   May 28, 2015 · On May 28, 1980, dozens of women made history as the first to graduate from America's military academies. This feature, The Way It Was, resurfaces and explores past stories from the CBS News ...

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5. www.army.mil › article › 47238The first women of West Point | Article | The United States Army

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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...

6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Rebecca_SRebecca S. Halstead - Wikipedia

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   Rebecca Stevens "Becky" Halstead (born 1959) is a former United States Army officer and the first female graduate of West Point to become a general officer. She was the 34th Chief of Ordnance and Commandant of the United States Army Ordnance Center and Schools at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

7. www.army.mil › article › 235994Forty years have passed since the first women graduated from ...

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   May 27, 2020 · After the law changed, female cadet candidates arrived at the prep school in early 1976 and were put on an accelerated program to prepare them to enter West Point in July. Twenty women...

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   Where did the first women graduate from West Point Military Academy?

   • The story of the first women graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point begins not along the banks of the Hudson River, where the school is located, but in Washington, D.C.

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   Why did West Point not have women?

   • Uniforms malfunctioned or didn’t fit right as the academy adjusted to a new population, and West Point was led by a superintendent, Lt. Gen. Sidney B. Berry, who originally resisted the arrival of females. On Reception Day July 7, 1976, the women in the Class of 1980 had opened the doors to the academy as the first women to be admitted.

   Forty years have passed since the first women graduated from West Point

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   How many women graduated from West Point?

   • In 1980, 62 females graduated from West Point, representing 6.7 percent of the class. Last week, 303 females graduated from West Point, making up 23 percent of the Class of 2019.

   First female West Point graduate reflects on historic anniversary

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   Are West Point women still in the Army?

   • National Archives and Records Administration 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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   What did women do at West Point?

   • Women soon made strides in the realm of academics and athletics. In the second year at West Point, the top academic student in the class of 1980 was a woman. The nascent women’s basketball and volleyball teams won their respective state titles in their first year, earning a varsity status and their peer’s respect.

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   Why did West Point include women in its academies?

   • To them, the inclusion of women merely brought West Point up to the standards that the Reserve Officer Training Corps and Officer Candidate School commissioning programs upheld for almost a decade prior to the admission of women into the service academies and provided the post-Vietnam Army more qualified recruits.

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9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › United_States_Military_AcademyUnited States Military Academy - Wikipedia

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   The United States Military Academy (USMA, West Point, or Army[7]) is a United States service academy in West Point, New York. It was originally established as a fort during the American Revolutionary War, as it sits on strategic high ground overlooking the Hudson River 50 miles (80 km) north of New York City.