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Oct 19, 2021

Dr. Rachel Levine was sworn in as the first female four-star admiral in the history of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, a uniformed service of more than 6,000 health, science and engineering professionals. nyti.ms/3lWLKJv

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Michelle Howard the actual first four star admiral and one who commanded actual ships

11:05 PM · Oct 25, 2021

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Any links to stories on this?

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I just googled “first female admiral” and found her. There was coverage when she reached that rank and more recently she’s in the news because she is the chair of the committee to rename military bases. She’s also on the board of IBM. She’s pretty famous.

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Ok but she isn't in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps? Did you not understand the sentence?

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I understood it as it was intended. Can name any prior USPHS admirals?

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Did you go blind when the tweet said "in the history of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps"

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raised the same issue & you can go through our back & forth on it. It was presented in different ways in different media but I think it was intentionally misleading. Upside someone posted a link to an interview w admiral Howard. m.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Rh9v amazing woman

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U.S. Navy Four-Star Admiral Michelle Howard | Understanding Our New...

United States Navy Four-Star Admiral Michelle Howard and Institute Director John Shaw discussed the importance of inspiring leadership in tackling America’s ...

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Michelle Howard - Wikipedia

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Thanks Horatio. The interview with Admiral Howard is amazing. I hope more ppl watch it. She is amazing. One of the things that struck me is the resistance to chance in the past to women in the military. I try to keep that in mind in the moment