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Loretta Perfectus Walsh (April 22, 1896 – August 6, 1925) was the first American woman to officially serve in the United States Armed Forces in a non-nursing capacity. She joined the United States Naval Reserve on March 17, 1917, and subsequently became the first female petty officer in the Naval Reserve when she was sworn in as Chief Yeoman on March 21, 1917.
Lisa Marie Franchetti (/ f r æ n. k ˈ ɛ t i / fran-KEH-ti; born 25 April 1964) [1] is a United States Navy admiral who has been the 33rd [2] chief of naval operations since 2 November 2023. [3] [4] She is the first woman to be chief of naval operations, and the first woman to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. [3]
Anna Der-Vartanian (December 6, 1920 – August 4, 2011) was the first woman promoted to Master Chief Petty Officer (E-9), the highest enlisted rate in the United States Navy. In 1959, while serving as assistant to the Global Strategy Officer at the Naval War College in Newport , Rhode Island , Der-Vartanian received her promotion to Master ...
President Joe Biden has chosen Adm. Lisa Franchetti to lead the Navy, an unprecedented choice that, if she is confirmed, will make her the first woman to be a Pentagon service chief and the first ...
Women worked as nurses for the Union Navy during the American Civil War.In 1890, Ann Bradford Stokes, who during the American Civil War had worked as a nurse on the navy hospital ship USS Red Rover, where she assisted Sisters of the Holy Cross, was granted a pension of $12 a month, making her the first American woman to receive a pension for her own service in the military.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Admiral Lisa Franchetti to lead the Navy, an historic step that would break a gender barrier in the U.S. military by making her the ...
CDR Judy Chesser Coffman, of the U.S. Navy, was the first female helicopter pilot to fly in Antarctica, in support of the National Science Foundation. [7] BUCM Carol Keehner became the first female seabee Master Chief in the U.S. Navy. [7] CDR Lin Hutton became the first female U.S. Navy commanding officer of a Fleet Support Squadron, VRC-40. [7]
She was the first African-American woman to command a United States Navy ship, [3] USS Rushmore, [4] and the first to achieve two- and three-star rank. In 2006, she was selected for the rank of rear admiral (lower half), [ 5 ] making her the first admiral selected from the United States Naval Academy class of 1982 and the first female graduate ...