First in the Navy - Women Empowerment

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Across
  1. 1. First and only Black woman, among the first group of women, accepted to the academy in 1976
  2. 4. First enlisted woman to be stationed aboard a submarine in 2016, the USS Michigan (SSGN 727)
  3. 7. First woman to serve as Acting Secretary of the Navy (2003)
  4. 9. First woman naval aircrewman to become a master chief (2020)
  5. 11. First Filipino-American woman promoted to rear admiral; the first woman to become the director of the White House Medical Unit; and the first military woman to be appointed as the White House Physician.
  6. 13. Began her Navy civil service career in 1984 and became the first woman to serve as Naval Sea Systems Command’s executive director (2021)
  7. 14. Responsible for the man, train and equip functions for Navy information warfare (IW) and Fleet C5ISR (command, control, communications, computers, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) capabilities for 88 subordinate operational shore commands and 21,000 personnel
Down
  1. 2. First woman to command Naval Supply Systems Command, the first woman selected as the Chief of the Supply Corps (2018), the first woman in the Supply Corps selected for Vice Admiral (2020), and first woman selected as the director of the Defense Logistics Agency (2002)
  2. 3. Instrumental in securing the right for women to serve aboard ships. She enlisted in the Navy in 1973 and in 1976 launched a class-action suit against the Navy arguing that regulations prohibiting women from serving on board ships were unconstitutional. The court ultimately ruled in her favor in 1978, and by autumn of that same year the law was amended to allow women to serve at sea.
  3. 4. First woman awarded the Master Chief Del Black Leadership award (2020) for her unwavering dedication to mission success, as well as the resiliency and mentorship given to all Sailors aboard her ship, the USS Gonzalez (DDG 66)
  4. 5. First woman to command U.S. Fleet Cyber Command, U.S. 10th Fleet (2014). Also, was the first woman to command a numbered fleet, and the first woman Information Warfare Officer promoted to flag rank
  5. 6. First Black woman to command a U.S. Navy combatant ship, USS Rushmore (LSD 47) (1999). She was the first woman promoted to the rank of four-star admiral (2014). Also, became the first woman four-star admiral to command operational forces when she assumed command of both U.S. Naval Forces Europe – Naval Forces Africa and Allied Joint Forces Command Naples (NATO) from 2016 to 2017
  6. 8. First woman, and only the second Navy flag officer, selected as the Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
  7. 10. First woman combat photographer in the Navy to be awarded the Bronze Star
  8. 12. Commissioned in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) in 1943. Served as the head of the Navy Hydrographic Office’s new Oceanographic Unit where her research proved critical to the survivability of submarines. Following the war she was appointed the first officer-in-charge of the newly established Division of Oceanography