Women in the military have helped shape all branches of our armed forces — and they deserve to be celebrated every day.
Walsh was stationed at the Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia during World War I and, alongside more than 11,000 fellow women, received the same pay as men.
, according to the Department of Defense. Undeterred, she reapplied and was accepted in December 1942., first Korean-born American female member and first woman gunnery officer, in charge of the ship’s guns and ammunition. Women served as military flyers during World War II as Women Airforce Service Pilots, but the organization disbanded after the war. While women resumed flying, legislation from Congress in 1948 prohibited women from flying warplanes in combat.
Growing up, Pvt. Cathay Williams worked as a house slave in Jefferson City, Missouri, but when the Union army took the city, captured slaves were used in military support roles,On Nov. 15, 1866, Williams enlisted in the U.S. Army as a man under the name William Cathay and was assigned to the 38th U.S. Infantry Regiment. She was the first Black woman to enlist in the U.S. Army.
“I knew how badly I wanted to go [to Ranger School] when I was a second lieutenant, before I became a platoon leader,”
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