Английская Википедия:Heidi V. Brown
Heidi Virginia Brown[1] (born 20 July 1959)[2] is a retired U.S. Army Major General who was the first woman to command an air defense battalion and later, in combat, an air defense brigade.
Biography
Born in Texas[2] and raised in El Paso, Brown graduated from Austin High School in 1977.[3][4] That same year, she was nominated by Congressman Richard Crawford White to the United States Military Academy.[5] In 1981, she graduated from the second West Point class to include women.[3] In 1993, she graduated from the Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth.[6] Later, she earned a master's degree in education from the University of South Carolina.[7]
Brown worked at the Pentagon where she developed a computer program to identify demographic profiles of deployed Army units.[8] In September 1997, she returned to Ft. Bliss.[8] She was in charge of a PATRIOT missile battalion in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the late 1990s.[9] During this time, when she led the 2-43 Air Defense Artillery Battalion, she became the first woman to command an air defense battalion.[8][10]
In 2002, Brown became the first woman to command an air defense artillery brigade in the Army.[3] In 2003, she became the first woman to command a brigade, the 31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade, in combat during the Iraq War.[4][11] In 2008, she took a new assignment in combat support operations.[9] Later she became the director of global operations for the U.S. Strategic Command stationed in Offutt Air Force Base.[4]
Brown retired as an Army Major General in 2017.[4] She retired to Locust Grove, Virginia.[4]
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