Army Women in the News
Hon. Duckworth and Brig. Gen. Vaught, USAF (Ret.) to Be Inducted Into the U.S. Army Women’s Foundation Hall of Fame
February 23, 2010
The U.S. Army Women’s Foundation today announced its Hall of Fame inductees for 2010: The Honorable L. Tammy Duckworth, Assistant Secretary of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs; and, Brigadier General Wilma Vaught, USAF (Ret.), President of Board of Directors of the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation, Inc. [ more ]
Forgotten Female POW’s Story Told
February 16, 2010 by Ryan Justin Fox
In helping former U.S. Army Spc. Shoshana Johnson write her autobiography, Fort George G. Meade Media Relations Chief Mary L. Doyle not only exposed the world to the plight of the country’s first African-American female prisoner of war, but furthered Doyle’s own budding literary career. [ more ]
Home Fires: Women’s Work
February 15, 2010 by Catherine Ross
Maybe I should’ve been a soldier in Israel’s army. As of 10 years ago, that country’s women have been allowed to serve in the Israeli Defense Force (I.D.F.) in any capacity that male soldiers serve, including combat units. [ more ]
Wounded Warriors Hit the Slopes
January 22, 2010 by Benita Zahn
Adjusting to life back home after serving in the military can be overwhelming. Service members may be dealing with extensive injuries, emotional trauma or both. The Wounded Warrior Project has what may seem like a simple treatment — get these soldiers on the slopes. [ more ]
Army Athletes Make USA Winter Olympics Team
January 20, 2010 by Tim Hipps
Seven current and former members of the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program have earned spots on Team USA for the XXI Olympic Winter Games, scheduled for Feb. 12-28 in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. [ more ]
First Woman Becomes Army Provost Marshal General
January 15, 2010 by Jeffrey Castro, USACIDC Public Affairs
Brig. Gen. Colleen L. McGuire assumed responsibility as the first woman provost marshal general of the Army and also took command of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command in a ceremony Thursday at Fort Belvoir. [ more ]
Women’s Museum Second Director Makes Visit to New Location
December 29, 2009 by F.M. Wiggins
Elizabeth Saus recently visited the Army Women’s Museum to celebrate her 90th birthday. But Saus was no ordinary visitor to the museum. [ more ]
Sen. Mark Warner Seeks More Help for Women Veterans
December 14, 2009 by Hugh Lessig
Genevieve Chase battled depression after coming home from Afghanistan, but reaching out to her fellow soldiers was difficult, even though she considered them brothers. [ more ]
Army’s Longest Serving Female Command Sergeant Major Retires
November 17, 2009 by Michael Norris
Although she won’t formally retire until March 2010, a retirement ceremony was held for Command Sgt. Maj. Cynthia A. Pritchett, the senior enlisted leader for the Army element of the U.S. Central Command, Nov. 13, at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall’s Conmy Hall. [ more ]
A Woman’s Place Is at the Pentagon
November 1, 2009 by Anna Mulrine
Kathleen Hicks, deputy under secretary of defense for strategy, plans, and forces, has served at the Pentagon off and on since 1993. But it was not until last February that she walked into a Defense Department office and found herself in a meeting in which all of the attendees were women. [ more ]
Women in Defense name winners of Horizon Industry Awards
October 27, 2009 by Gabe Nelson
The Michigan chapter of Women in Defense has named the winners of its annual Horizon Industry Awards, given to local defense professionals for innovative business accomplishments. [ more ]
Female Warriors Engage in Combat in Iraq, Afghanistan
October 25, 2009 by Martha Raddatz and Elizabeth Gorman
The image of young women in a hot, dusty combat zone toting automatic weapons is still startling to some. But right now there are 10,000 women serving in Iraq, more than 4,000 in Aghanistan. [ more ]
Women at War
October 25, 2009 by Colleen Jenkins
This photograph from Afghanistan recently made rounds on the Facebook and e-mail accounts of folks whose work centers on military women’s issues. [ more ]
Enough About Amelia
October 20, 2009 by Lane Wallace
On Friday, the latest biopic about Amelia Earhart — this one a $20 million feature film starring Hilary Swank and Richard Gere — opens in theaters nationwide. [ more ]
First Female Commander of Army Drill Sgt. School
October 20, 2009 by By Julie O’Neill
431 hours. 9 weeks. 10 hour days. That’s just the tip of the iceberg for soldiers at the U.S. Army’s Drill Sergeant School in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. For the first time since its inception in 1964, its top dog does not look or act like a typical drill sergeant. [ more ]
USCENTCOM Army Element CSM: Soldier Input Is Important
August 31, 2009 by Spc. Gaelen Lowers, 3rd Sustainment Bde. Public
The Army is going through changes. From the way they deploy to the way the Army treats and handles Soldiers in garrison, the Army has been under a major reconstruction from the ground up. [ more ]
Women’s Equality Day Celebrates Universal Suffrage
August 26, 2009 by Gary Sheftick
Soldiers will celebrate Women’s Equality Day Wednesday with lunches, lectures, fun runs and other observances across the Army. [ more ]
Click the thumbnail image to view the Women’s Equality Day Letter.
Living and Fighting Alongside Men, and Fitting In
August 16, 2009 by Steven Lee Myers
There is no mistaking that this dusty, gravel-strewn camp northeast of Baghdad is anything other than a combat outpost in a still-hostile land. And there is no mistaking that women in uniform have had a transformative effect on it. [ more ]
G.I. Jane Breaks the Combat Barrier
August 15, 2009 by Lizette Alvarez
As the convoy rumbled up the road in Iraq, Specialist Veronica Alfaro was struck by the beauty of fireflies dancing in the night. Then she heard the unmistakable pinging of tracer rounds and, in a Baghdad moment, realized the insects were illuminated bullets. [ more ]
Women at Arms: In Their Own Words
August 16, 2009
Before 2001, ground combat was rare for American female soldiers, but Iraq and Afghanistan have changed that. Three women who were commended for their performance in combat reflect on their experiences. [ more ]
Women at Arms: Beyond the Wire
Produced by Kassie Bracken
For female soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, experience on the ground is outpacing official military policy. [ video ]
Women at Arms: On the Ground
Produced by Kassie Bracken
Female soldiers at Camp Warhorse in Iraq speak candidly about the changing dynamics at base camp. [ video ]
Female Military Police “driven” to Protect
August 1, 2009 by Pfc. Kelly Lecompte
Fort Lee exhibit tells stories of soldier/beauty queens
August 1, 2009 by Luz Lazo
They wear the Army uniform and have been to combat operations. They are also beauty queens.
Maier returns to command 16th MP Brigrade.
July 31, 2009 by Henry Cuningham
Army picks first female commandant to lead Drill Sergeant School.
July 30, 2009 By Crystal Lewis Brown
Year of the NCO: Stars of Progress
March 26, 2009 by T. Anthony Bell
Foundation launches programs for Army women
March 25, 2009 by Gary Sheftick
Women who serve in the Army are better educated and often end up having better jobs than their civilian counterparts.
Veteran’s Day
November 11, 2008
Memories of service — Marion Crawford remembers being in Vietnam.
“Tribute past due” black veterans.
Plans in place to relocate Ordnance Museum to Fort Lee.
Married Fort Drum colonels proud of their decades in Army together.
Female vet seeks others for group.
Female baseball pro marks women’s history.
Women serve today on battlefield.
First female CSM of sub-unified combatant command shares experience
November 03, 2008 by Jessica Obermeyer
Women in the Army: Today’s Soldiers a long way from the WAC
by Melissa Bower
Retired and current women Soldiers at Fort Leavenworth say there’s much to be proud about women who have served the Army.
This year, the Army promoted its first woman to four-star general and celebrated 30 years of women serving in the integrated Army. [more...]
When Janey Comes Marching Home
Laura Browder / Sascha Pflaeging, Photographer
The first time I heard a woman describe her time in Iraq in glowing terms, I was taken aback. Marine Colonel Jenny Holbert told me that being in charge of public affairs for the second battle of Fallujah was “probably one of the biggest events of my life, other than birthing two children.” Colonel Holbert’s enthusiasm for deployment was only one of many surprises I encountered over the course of conducting forty-six interviews with women soldiers, sailors, and marines across the eastern seaboard — a small portion of which are presented here.
Photographer Sascha Pflaeging and I conceived of our collaboration as a way of hearing the stories and showing the faces of some of the first large cohort of women — over 180,000 as of this writing — who had served in the American military in combat zones. [more...]
A Comet, a Chick, a star — Richmond Native Played Girls Baseball in the 1940s
Hand Helen “Gig” Smith a baseball, and her face lights up like a scoreboard.
“Oh, boy!” she beams, taking a firm grip and simulating a throw in her comfortable studio apartment at Westminster Canterbury Richmond.
It may have been awhile, years perhaps, since Smith wrapped her fingers around the laces. But it’s springtime. Time for baseball.
And at 86, Smith — a retired Richmond art teacher, World War II Army veteran and board member of the foundation that supports the Army Women’s Museum in Fort Lee — is still in a league of her own. [more...]
President Bush nominates LTG Ann E. Dunwoody for promotion to general.
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, July 24, 2008)
The U.S. Senate confirmed Wednesday the appointment of Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody to the grade of four-star general.
Dunwoody, who will be the first woman to serve as a four-star general in the U.S. military, was also confirmed for assignment as commanding general, U.S. Army Materiel Command, headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Va. [more...]
Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody smiles during her promotion to general, where she was pinned by Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. George W. Casey, left, and her husband, Craig Brotchie, during a ceremony at the Pentagon, Nov. 14, 2008. Dunwoody made history as the nation’s first four-star female officer.
Photos courtesy U.S. Army
Retired Brigadier General Elizabeth Paschel Hoisington Passes
Retired Brigadier General Elizabeth Paschel Hoisington, seventh director of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC), and one of the first two female Army generals, died Aug. 21, 2007. [more...]
