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MCGHEE TYSON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tenn. A U.S. Air National Guard Noncommissioned Officer Academy student gets inspected by Col. Edmund Morrisey, then head of the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center here. In its early beginnings, Women in the Air Force, or active duty WAFs, first attended the academy. Later, women attended on the same status as men after the WAFs were abolished in 1976, the same year the U.S. Air Force Academy begin accepting females. The first woman in the nation to graduate and earn a commission as an officer from the Academy of Military Science was then 2nd Lt. Diane Tucker, from the D.C. Air National Guard in April 1973 at the TEC . The Guards first woman training officer here was then Capt. Nancy Graf, from the Michigan Air National Guard, who instructed her first Academy of Military Science flight in 1973; all male students. (U.S. Air National Guard file-photo/Released)
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