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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on November 14, 2008, 03:49:52 PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) - 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.
At an emotional promotion ceremony, Dunwoody looked back on her years in uniform, said it was a credit to the Army—and a great surprise to her—that she would make history in a male-dominated military.
"Thirty-three years after I took the oath as a second lieutenant, I have to tell you this is not exactly how I envisioned my life unfolding," she told a standing-room-only auditorium. "Even as a young kid, all I ever wanted to do was teach physical education and raise a family.
"It was clear to me that my Army experience was just going to be a two-year detour en route to my fitness profession," she added. "So when asked, `Ann, did you ever think you were going to be a general officer, to say nothing about a four-star?' I say, `Not in my wildest dreams.'
"There is no one more surprised than I—except, of course, my husband. You know what they say, `Behind every successful woman there is an astonished man.' "
Dunwoody hails from a family of military men dating back to the 1800s. Her father, 89-year-old Hal Dunwoody—a decorated veteran of World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam—was in the audience, along with the service chiefs of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, plus the Joint Chiefs chairman, Adm. Mike Mullen.
Dunwoody, whose husband, Craig Brotchie, served for 26 years in the Air Force, choked up at times during a speech in which she said she only recently realized how much her accomplishment means to others.
"This promotion has taken me back in time like no other event in my entire life," she said. "And I didn't appreciate the enormity of the events until tidal waves of cards, letters, and e-mails started coming my way.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94ERLRO3&show_article=1
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Hmmf. Imagine that. "Done Woody" is my nickname down at The Center.
Seriously, this surprises me. I thought there had already been a woman 4-star. I don't know why.
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Anybody know what her basic branch was?
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Anybody know what her basic branch was?
She's Logistics. DISCOM and the like. She's gonna run AMC down at Belvoir.
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She's Logistics. DISCOM and the like. She's gonna run AMC down at Belvoir.
AMC!?! Slowly I turn....
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AMC!?! Slowly I turn....
What is AMC?
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What is AMC?
Army Material Command.
They give the Army everything from beans to bullets.
It's the equivalent of a Fortune 100 company with about 150,000 "employees".
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Army Material Command.
They give the Army everything from beans to bullets.
It's the equivalent of a Fortune 100 company with about 150,000 "employees".
So, then, one could infer that she was a Quartermaster's Corps member.
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So, then, one could infer that she was a Quartermaster's Corps member.
Not necessarily, AMC also has lots of Ordnance Corps officers, plus a lot of folks who started out in all sorts of different branches but went into log or procurement tracks as senior CPTs.
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Not necessarily, AMC also has lots of Ordnance Corps officers, plus a lot of folks who started out in all sorts of different branches but went into log or procurement tracks as senior CPTs.
Signal has a lot of former combat arms officers, too.
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So, then, one could infer that she was a Quartermaster's Corps member.
Yes I believe that is correct.