As of last fall, the top four leaders in Maryland's National Guard are all women, and all mothers — three of them African American.
Maj. Gen. Linda L. Singh, right, Maryland's adjutant general, is seen at the Pentagon with Brig. Gen. Janeen L. Birckhead, left, assistant adjutant general for the Army; Brig. Gen. April D. Vogel, second from left, assistant adjutant general for Air; and Command Sgt. Maj. Perlisa D. Wilson, senior enlisted adviser for the Maryland National Guard.
The female-powered staff was, in many ways, entirely unintentional, Singh said. When the positions opened up, Singh by no means was seeking an all-female leadership team — she simply wanted the most qualified candidates available, she said. But even in Maryland, the military continues to be a field overwhelmingly dominated by men. Before Birckhead was promoted to brigadier general, she was one of about 25 colonels in the Maryland Army National Guard — and she was the only woman.
In college, during Birckhead’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps training at Hampton University, she said, a professor of military science began making inappropriate advances toward her, asking her to redo land navigation training alone with him at night. Birckhead filed a harassment claim, and the professor was removed from the position, she said.
Both women ended up far exceeding their goals. When Wilson ended up being promoted to sergeant major, the other female leader was there to pin her at her ceremony.
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