US Coast Guard Academy first with women grads

By WITH ANALYSIS FROM MONITOR CORRESPONDENTS AROUND THE WORLD; EDITED BY DEBRA K. PIOT

May 22, 1980

New London, Conn.

Fourteen women cadets received their degrees and commissions Wednesday from the US Coast Guard Academy -- the first female graduates of the nation's military academies. The other academies for the armed services -- the Army, Navy, and Air Force -- wild graduate their first women next week.