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Female General Looks Back on Her Climb
An inspiration to all of us.
CAMP ANACONDA, Iraq (AP) - Retracing her path to becoming a brigadier general in Iraq, Rebecca Halstead remembers her first command back in 1981 where, as a freshly minted lieutenant, she was teamed with a sergeant who had served in Vietnam.

It was a rough beginning. After a month at the U.S. Army's base in Vicenza, Italy, Halstead pulled the sergeant aside and outlined two of the three strikes she thought he held against her:
She was yet another officer for him to train; she was from West Point; and - as the petite Halstead stood on a rock to look the sergeant in the eye - she told him strike three was that she's short.

"And he just started laughing because I know he thought I was going to say (it's) 'because I'm a woman.' And that probably was what the issue was," Halstead recalled during an interview at her office on this base 50 miles north of Baghdad.

Posted by: Steve White 2006-08-14
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