WASHINGTON — Call it breaking the brass ceiling. Ann E. Dunwoody, after 33 years in the Army, ascended Friday to a peak never before reached by a woman in the U.S. military: four-star general.

Foushee cited “trailblazing women” to include Army Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody; Mary Edwards Walker; Loretta Perfectus Walsh; Lt. Elsie S. Ott; Jeannie Marie Leavitt; Capt. Kathleen McGrath; Col ...

Lt. Col. Dianna Echard-Danis, detail inspector general with the U.S. Army Reserve Command, who credits much of her success in the military to inspirational women who have come before her, works on ...

Foushee cited “trailblazing women” to include Army Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody; Mary Edwards Walker; Loretta Perfectus Walsh; Lt. Elsie S. Ott; Jeannie Marie Leavitt; Capt. Kathleen McGrath; Col ...

Foushee cited “trailblazing women” to include Army Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody; Mary Edwards Walker; Loretta Perfectus Walsh; Lt. Elsie S. Ott; Jeannie Marie Leavitt; Capt. Kathleen McGrath; Col ...

In 2024, the American Spirit Award recipients were retired U.S. Army Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody, film director Steven Spielberg, and the Tuskegee Airmen represented by retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col ...

Women Veterans Recognition Day was proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives by a congresswoman from one of North Carolina’s most liberal districts. Rep. Valerie Foushee, D-N.C., proposes June 12 ...

Ann was born on July 11, 1935, in Solon, Iowa the fourth of five children. On August 21, 1955, she married Ned Allen, making a commitment to life on the farm that lasted more than 60 years.

The pugnacious general, who is known as “The Gorilla,” is overruling other top Pentagon officials and playing a quiet but decisive role in the country’s next steps on Iran, according to a ...