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Thursday, July 03, 2014

U.S. Navy promotes first woman to four-star admiral


The U.S. Navy made history Tuesday when they promoted the first woman to the rank of four-star admiral.

Michelle Howard is the first female sailor to become a four-star admiral in the Navy’s 236-year history. During the promotion ceremony held at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, Howard talked not about herself, but her fellow servicemen and women, Huffington Post reports.

“Our sailors and Marines are this legacy. They are volunteers,” Howard said. “And with every mission, they demonstrate our core values, values our founders would have understood – courage, honor commitment.”

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