You Go Girl!

Posted November 17, 2008, 1:58 pm


In a year of historic firsts for women in public service, one woman has shattered a new kind of ceiling -- the brass one. Army Gen. Ann Dunwoody, 55, has just become the first woman in the U.S. military to achieve the rank of four-star general. How big was her promotion? Defense Secretary Robert Gates attended her pinning ceremony. Dunwoody says an Army career was never her life plan. Click here to find out what she thought she'd be doing instead.

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