The first woman to become a general officer in the U.S. armed services was Brig. Gen. Anna Mae Hays, chief of the Army Nurse Corps, who achieved the rank in 1970 and retired the following year.

The first female three-star general in the U.S. Army stumped for U.S. Senate candidate Jim Martin on Monday - one day before today's runoff election between Martin and Republican incumbent Saxby ...

By law, women are excluded from combat jobs, the typical path to four-star rank in the military. However, in 2005, Dunwoody became the Army’s top-ranking female when she received the promotion to ...

The U.S. Army has suspended a former top spokesperson from a consulting position and put him under investigation after he posted a tweet appearing to mock Jill Biden over a recent comment by the ...

A retired three-star general of the U.S. Army has been suspended from a "mentor" position after sarcastically congratulating first lady Jill Biden for learning "what a woman is." The Army ...

The Army suspended a three-star general after he appeared to make fun of First Lady ... Open main U.S. News navigation U.S. News. US ... women have had the right to make our own decisions about ...

WASHINGTON - A retired three-star general of the U.S. Army has been suspended from a "mentor" position after sarcastically congratulating first ... women have had the right to make our own ...

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Gary Volesky talks to reporters following a change of command ceremony at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state on April 3, 2017.