Posted on 06/30/2008 9:59:29 AM PDT by mngran2
For more than a decade, Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody has delighted in leaping through the doors of military planes and plunging into the night with a parachute on her back.
A master parachutist and a former battalion commander, General Dunwoody handled logistics for the 82nd Airborne Division in Saudi Arabia during the first gulf war. As a three-star general, she has flown to Afghanistan and Iraq to ensure the steady flow of ammunition, tanks and fuel to the troops.
But one of the biggest joys of her 33-year military career has been jumping out of airplanes and into roles previously unimaginable to generations of women in the Army. Last week, President Bush asked General Dunwoody to take over a new Army command as a four-star general. If confirmed by the Senate, she will become the first woman in the armed services to achieve that rank.
In her new role, General Dunwoody, 55, would lead the Materiel Command of the Army, which supplies soldiers with military hardware, repairs armored vehicles and sustains combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.
lol..
.great post... I love that women are such an important part of our freedom in the military.. Special thanks to ann dunwoody and all the women and men serving in the military. :-)
Somewhere in America, a mom is not in the workforce, and is caring diligently for her husband and children, wiping noses, training, feeding, and nurturing.
I say give that woman a medal for her contributions to freedom.
Well said.
My thanks to all the noble and virtuous wives and mothers doing the important work.
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