General Ann Dunwoody: Shattering Barriers
General Ann Dunwoody has become the first woman in American history to be promoted to the rank of a four-star general, the highest rank in the US army. Dunwoody will head the Army Materiel Command, one of the Pentagon’s largest outfits that is responsible for worldwide logistical and supply operations.
“Coming less than two weeks after Barack Obama became the first African American to win the White House, the promotion marked the steady trend of shattering racial and sexual barriers in the United States, ” reports DPA. More here…
Gen Dunwoody comes from a long line of soldiers, reports the BBC. ” ‘A Dunwoody has fought in every American war since the Revolution,’ said army chief of staff Gen George Casey.
“She is married to retired air force officer Craig Brotchie. ‘There is no one more surprised than I, except of course, my husband,’ she told an auditorium packed with the military’s top brass. ‘And you know what they say, behind every successful woman there’s an astonished man.’
“Defence Secretary Robert Gates said: ‘History will no doubt take note of [Dunwoody’s] achievement in breaking through this final ‘brass ceiling’ to pin on this fourth star. But she would rather be known and remembered first and foremost as a US army soldier.’
“She is now head of the Army Materiel Command, in charge of weapons, equipment and uniforms for the army. Women are barred from combat roles but have been allowed in the last two decades to serve in a wide variety of other positions.
“There are 21 female generals, most of them one-star, in the US army. Women make up 14% of the army’s active-service strength of more than 500,000 soldiers.” More here…
(File photo above courtesy Associated Press by STACEY G. BROOKS)
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