A Woman Has Been Confirmed as the Commander of the Army Reserve for the First Time in History

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For the first time in U.S. military history, a woman has been confirmed as the commanding general of the Army Reserve.

The Senate has confirmed that Maj. Gen. Jody J. Daniels will be promoted to lieutenant general and assigned as the chief of the Army Reserve and commanding general of the U.S. Army Reserve Command, the service announced in a press release on Wednesday.

Daniels was previously the commanding general of the 88th Readiness Division.

Daniels has over 36 years of active and reserve military experience, having deployed to Iraq as the chief of plans and integrations and later served as the director of intelligence for the Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq. She also completed a civil affairs deployment to Kosovo.

As a civilian, Daniels was the director of advanced programs for Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Laboratories, the Army Reserve release says.

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