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Retired general helped end ban on women in combat

She was the first woman graduate from the U.S. Military Academy to achieve the rank of brigadier general, and she helped design the framework for lifting the ban on women in combat.

Female National Guard soldiers in Nevada say they’re combat-ready

Spc. Morissa Baker and her band of sisters is a force the enemy would find hard to contend with. The 24-year-old Nevada Army National Guard soldier can do 53 pushups or 60 situps in two minutes, and she can run two miles in 17½ minutes.