First Class: Women Join the Ranks at the Naval Academy - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sharon DisherSeries:Bluejacket BooksPublish date:2013-07-31Pages:362
Language:EnglishPublisher:US Naval Institute PressISBN-13:9781591142164ISBN-10:1591142164UPC:9781591142164Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Military, Women's StudiesBook Topic:Naval, United StatesSize:9.00 x 6.12 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC55CF1B4F
First Class: Women Join the Ranks at the Naval Academy
When Sharon Hanley Disher entered the U.S. Naval Academy with eighty other young women in 1976, she helped end a 131-year all-male tradition at Annapolis. Her entertaining and shocking account of the women's four-year effort to join the academy's elite fraternity and become commissioned naval officers is a valuable chronicle of the times, and her insights have been credited with helping us...
Series: Bluejacket Books
Language:EnglishPublisher:US Naval Institute PressISBN-13:9781591142164ISBN-10:1591142164UPC:9781591142164Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Military, Women's StudiesBook Topic:Naval, United StatesSize:9.00 x 6.12 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC55CF1B4F
Sharon Hanley Disher served in the Navy Civil Engineering Corps for ten years after her 1980 graduation from the Naval Academy, including service as the officer in charge of a construction battalion unit in New London, Connecticut, the second woman in the Navy to hold such a position. She currently resides in Annapolis with her husband and three children.
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