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Today we're going back to July 1976 when women were admitted to America's prestigious West Point Military Academy for the first time.

It's July 7th, 1976. 17-year-old Marie Nyberg is one of the first 11919-19 female cadets to arrive at the United States Military Academy, better known as West Point.

The memories of my first day is arriving with my parents and then getting into the central area in the man in the red sash.

And this is a very classic moment for most new cadets who show up at West Point.

You have a little tag attached to you where you get all your uniforms

and you get your hair cut and you learn how to salute,

you learn how to march.

You then march out in the afternoon. how to

learn how to march. You then march out in the afternoon and you raise your right hand and you swear loyalty to the United States Army and to the United States

and you officially become a new cadet at West Point.

Women were admitted to West Point following a vote by the U.S. Congress in 1975 to open up all five of the American

Service academies to female cadets. The debate had been acrimonious,

pitting feminists against military veterans who believed women just

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