ArcticWolf
27-08-06, 19:43
I just want to honour this incredible woman:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/19/AR2006081900828.html
Extracts from the above linked article:
Maj. Gen. Kathryn George Frost, 57, the senior woman on active duty in the Army at the time of her retirement last year and the wife of former congressman Martin Frost (D-Tex.), died Aug. 18 of breast cancer at her home in Latta, S.C.
Her final assignment was as commander of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, or AAFES, which oversees the stores known as base exchanges and post exchanges.
"She was well-known for her work to champion personnel policies, education and leadership innovations for the U.S. Army," Army spokesman Paul Boyce told the Associated Press.
She was working as a civilian counselor and program director at the Army Education Centers when she enlisted in 1974, while the Women's Army Corps was being phased out and women were being integrated into the regular Army.
She joined the Army, she told the Miami Herald in 2003, because she admired how officers she had counseled lived their lives on and off duty. She also said she wanted to prove something to feminists and to enemies of feminism.
"Most people wanted equal rights, but no one was asking for equal responsibility," she told the Herald. "Commitment requires sacrifice. Somewhere along the line, to be successful, one has to establish priorities and make choices." sal;
She was first in her Women's Army Corps basic course and first in her WAC advanced training course.
She served four years as adjutant general of the Army and as commander of the Eastern Sector of the Military Entrance Processing Command. She had two tours in Berlin and also worked at the Pentagon on the staff of Gen. Colin L. Powell when he was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
She became deputy commander of AAFES in 1996. As commander, she headed an $8 billion retail operation with 48,000 employees in all 50 states and in 35 countries. Under her leadership, the command received a special award from the National Retail Federation for its work in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/19/AR2006081900828.html
Extracts from the above linked article:
Maj. Gen. Kathryn George Frost, 57, the senior woman on active duty in the Army at the time of her retirement last year and the wife of former congressman Martin Frost (D-Tex.), died Aug. 18 of breast cancer at her home in Latta, S.C.
Her final assignment was as commander of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, or AAFES, which oversees the stores known as base exchanges and post exchanges.
"She was well-known for her work to champion personnel policies, education and leadership innovations for the U.S. Army," Army spokesman Paul Boyce told the Associated Press.
She was working as a civilian counselor and program director at the Army Education Centers when she enlisted in 1974, while the Women's Army Corps was being phased out and women were being integrated into the regular Army.
She joined the Army, she told the Miami Herald in 2003, because she admired how officers she had counseled lived their lives on and off duty. She also said she wanted to prove something to feminists and to enemies of feminism.
"Most people wanted equal rights, but no one was asking for equal responsibility," she told the Herald. "Commitment requires sacrifice. Somewhere along the line, to be successful, one has to establish priorities and make choices." sal;
She was first in her Women's Army Corps basic course and first in her WAC advanced training course.
She served four years as adjutant general of the Army and as commander of the Eastern Sector of the Military Entrance Processing Command. She had two tours in Berlin and also worked at the Pentagon on the staff of Gen. Colin L. Powell when he was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
She became deputy commander of AAFES in 1996. As commander, she headed an $8 billion retail operation with 48,000 employees in all 50 states and in 35 countries. Under her leadership, the command received a special award from the National Retail Federation for its work in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq.