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First African-American Female Crew Chief in Army National Guard
PFC Shaneria Robinson, a senior at Delaware State University and a 15T Helicopter Repairer, made history as the Army National Guard's first African-American female Crew Chief. Overcoming her fear of ...
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, first Black woman to serve in US Army Nurse Corps, dies at 104
Colon, the first African American commissioned into the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after it was desegregated in the 1940s, died ...
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First Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation dies
Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman desegregated it in 1948, ...
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First African-American female officer in command role at MPPD
Imagine being the first African-American female in a workplace formerly dominated by males. Meet Jennifer Smith-Backman, a woman who grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. She’s the first African-American ...