First women at Air Force Academy honored

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Lt. Gen. Terry J. Gabreski talks about her experiences as one of the first 12 female Air Training Officers during a ceremony to dedicate a window in Doolittle Hall on Dec. 5 at the Air Force Academy.


First women at Air Force Academy honored
By Tom Roeder - The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Dec 8, 2008 18:39:16 EST

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — History shows that the first women to enter the Air Force Academy arrived in the summer of 1976.

And history is wrong.

Months earlier, in a little-known chapter of Air Force lore, a dozen pioneering women, already officers, endured the hardships the first female cadets would soon face and kicked open the doors for women at the service academy.

“It laid the groundwork for what women now do as a routine part of our Air Force mission,” said Lt. Gen. Terry Gabreski, one of the dozen second lieutenants recruited as “air training officers.”

More than half of these women were back at the academy Friday for a ceremony to dedicate a monument in their honor.


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