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This is a list of female United States military generals and flag officers, that are either currently serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, or are retired.They are listed under their respective service branches, which make up the Department of Defense, with the exception of the Coast Guard, which is part of Homeland Security.
As of 2020, there were 74,592 total women on active duty in the US Army, with 16,987 serving as officers and 57,605 enlisted. While the Army has the highest number of total active duty members, the ratio of women-men is lower than the US Air Force and the US Navy, with women making up 15.5% of total active duty Army in 2020. [3]
Anna Mae Violet Hays (née McCabe; February 16, 1920 – January 7, 2018) was an American military officer who served as the 13th chief of the United States Army Nurse Corps. She was the first woman in the United States Armed Forces to be promoted to a general officer rank; in 1970, she was promoted to brigadier general. [2]
In Italy, during the second world war, the Female Auxiliary Service (Italian: Servizio Ausiliario Femminile, SAF) was a women's corps of the armed forces of the Italian Social Republic, whose components, all voluntary, were commonly referred to as auxiliaries.
Colonel Bree Fram is an American military officer, astronautical engineer, and transgender activist. She served in the United States Air Force during the Iraq War and was deployed to Iraq and Qatar as part of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The first American women enlisted into the regular armed forces were 13,000 women admitted into active duty in the U.S. Navy during the war. They served stateside in jobs and received the same benefits and responsibilities as men, including identical pay (US$28.75 per month), and were treated as veterans after the war.
Johnson's tenure with the A-10 dates back to her early days in the Air Force. She graduated from the Air Force Academy in 2014 and, in December 2016, joined the 355th Training Squadron at Davis ...
She became the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force, and the first female to hold the highest senior enlisted rank in any United States military branch, on August 14, 2020, [3] having been selected for the position on June 19. [4] She is also the first person of Asian-American descent to hold the highest senior enlisted position in the Air ...