Podcasts Government Women of the Military Replay: Retired Brig Gen Wilma Vaught (Vietnam and the Women's Memorial)

Replay: Retired Brig Gen Wilma Vaught (Vietnam and the Women's Memorial)

Published: June 20, 2023, 10 a.m.

b'Retired Air Force Brigadier General Wilma Vaught served in the United States Air Force for over 28 years, retiring in 1985 as one of the most highly decorated women in U.S. history. Throughout her career, General Vaught forged new paths and pioneered opportunities for the servicewomen who would follow. A Vietnam veteran, she was one of the few military women in that war who were not nurses. And, when she was promoted to brigadier general in 1980, she was one of a handful of women in the world who had ever achieved that distinction.'