Retired Maj. Gen. Kathryn Frost dies

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON - Retired Maj. Gen. Kathryn George Frost, who was the highest ranking woman in the Army when she retired last year after a 31-year career, died Friday of breast cancer. She was 57.

Frost, wife of former Rep. Martin Frost (news, bio, voting record), D-Texas, had been battling cancer for four years.

"Kathy was a woman of incredible strength," the former congressman said in a statement. "I will miss her deeply.

Frost was commander of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, or AAFES, which operates the commissaries and post and base exchanges on military installations nationally and overseas, including Afghanistan and Iraq.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060818/ap_on_go_ot/obit_frost

[salin]

1. RIP

[MadMaddie]

2. Another good soldier......lost....

RIP Maj Gen... RIP

[bunyip]

3. Maj. Gen Frost's career is something America can be proud of.

A woman achieving at the highest levels of a male-dominated field, not because she's a woman but because she earned it.

AFAIK no female officer here in Australia has reached Maj. Gen. I hope the late Maj. Gen. Kathryn George Frost is a sign of things to come.