Fort Des Moines held the first and only Black officer training during World War I. All 1,200 soldiers will be honored Saturday, June 14.

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 ...

She talked about the Six-Triple-Eight (6888), the first all-Black Women’s Army Corps ... officers, in solving the problem of getting the mail flowing again from Birmingham to American soldiers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...