Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody. From its humble beginning 33 years ago at Fort Sill, Okla., the career of Ann E. Dunwoody is ascending to a peak never before reached by a woman in the US military: four-star general.
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WASHINGTON -- From its humble beginning 33 years
ago at Fort Sill, Oklahoma,
the career of Ann E. Dunwoody is ascending to a peak never before reached by a
woman in the US
military: four-star general.
At
a Pentagon promotion ceremony Friday, Dunwoody was adding a fourth star and
later, at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, her birthplace, being sworn
in as commander of the Army Materiel Command, responsible for equipping,
outfitting and arming all soldiers. Just five months ago, she became the first
female deputy commander there.
Dunwoody,
55, has made it clear that she feels no need for special acclaim for her
historic achievement.
"The
recognition makes her a little bit uncomfortable from the standpoint of the
gender aspect, that we're making a big deal (that) she is the first female
general officer," Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said Thursday in
announcing that Defense Secretary Robert Gates would attend her promotion
ceremony.
When
she was nominated by President George W. Bush in June for promotion to
four-star rank, Dunwoody issued a statement saying she was humbled.
"I
grew up in a family that didn't know what glass ceilings were," she said.
"This nomination only reaffirms what I have known to be true about the
military throughout my career, that the doors continue to open for men and
women in uniform."
She
also told an internal Army publication, "While I may be the first, I know
I won't be the last."
Her
nomination was confirmed by the Senate in July.
Dunwoody
has chosen not to grant interviews to news organizations since her nomination.
She was scheduled to hold a news conference at the Pentagon after her promotion
ceremony on Friday.
There
are 21 female general officers in the Army, all but four at the one-star rank
of brigadier. It was not until 1970 that the Army had its first one-star: Anna
Mae Hays, chief of the Army Nurse Corps.
Women
now make up about 14 percent of the active-duty Army and are allowed to serve
in a wide variety of assignments. They are still excluded from units designed
primarily to engage in direct combat, such as infantry and tank units, but
their opportunities have expanded over the past two decades.
Dunwoody
received her Army commission after graduating from the State University of New
York at Cortland
in 1975.
Her
first assignment was to FortSill, as supply platoon leader in June 1976, and she
remained at Sill in various positions until she was sent to quartermaster
officer school at Fort Lee,
Virginia, in July 1980.
She
later served in Germany and Saudi Arabia.
After
graduating from the Command and General Staff College in 1987, she was assigned
to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where she became the 82nd
Airborne Division's first female battalion commander.
She
has numerous decorations, including the Distinguished Service Medal and Defense
Superior Service Medal.
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