151; -- For the first time in its nearly 250-year history, the United States Marine Corps will have a female infantry officer ... soldiers became the first women to graduate from Army Ranger ...

Adams, who had been the highest-ranking Black ... officer class of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC, later simply WAC). By the time she reached Fort Des Moines for basic officer training ...

Black men enlist for the Fort Des Moines' Officer Training Camp ... Fort Des Moines also hosted the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Two of the highest-ranking Black women — Charity Adams and ...

As Sutapa Khan prepared to rappel down the incline wall at the Lightning Academy's Air Assault course, her instructor, Staff Sgt. Misty DiChristina, asked her an important question: "Are you left ...

If confirmed, Marine Corps Col. Lorna M. Mahlock will be the first black ... its first female infantry officer. The woman, who wished to be unnamed, was the first female to finish training for ...

In May 2016, 2nd Lts. Virginia Brodie and Katherine Boy made history as the first female Marine artillery officers to ...

at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Washington Aqueduct in Washington, D.C., took a week in November to join other women Soldiers who volunteered to go through a portion of Army Ranger training at ...

In fact, with the news that the Army is investigating yet another officer ... “women soldiers” were viewed when they came on the scene, seven decades ago. The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps ...