Minnesota National Guard’s First Female General Officer Retires

(KNSI) — The Minnesota Nationwide Guard’s first feminine basic officer is retiring after greater than 38 years of service.

Air Drive Brig Gen. Sandy Greatest, the Minnesota Nationwide Guard’s Assistant Adjutant Common, says her best accomplishment in her profession is “paving the way in which for all that comply with and serving to Airmen, Troopers, and civilian staff obtain their desires.”

Based on a press launch from the Nationwide Guard, Greatest is culminating her profession serving because the assistant adjutant basic and even served as interim adjutant basic in 2020 – one other first. Moreover, she served because the particular assistant to the Chief of the Nationwide Guard Bureau, advising and helping leaders throughout the 54 states and territories in institutionalizing variety and inclusion to draw, recruit, and retain a high quality, inclusive, and equitable workforce that enabled Nationwide Guard formations to replicate the communities wherein Guard members serve throughout the nation.

The Minnesota Nationwide Guard has elevated its gender variety, with females representing 16.2 p.c of the drive in 2011 to 21.4 p.c in 2022. Since February 2016, when Greatest was promoted to brigadier basic, two extra females have attained the rank of a basic officer inside
the Minnesota Guard, the press launch says.

Military Maj. Gen. Shawn Manke, the Minnesota Nationwide Guard’s Adjutant Common, says Greatest “is the primary girl to be promoted to the rank of basic within the Minnesota Nationwide Guard since its inception in 1856, but she didn’t use this recognition to hinder service members; as a substitute, she used her place to carry up the men and women on this group.”

As a part of a management staff, Greatest oversaw the event of the Ladies’s Management Discussion board, which gives training, mentorship, and networking alternatives for the ladies within the Minnesota Nationwide Guard’s formation and people who help them. The discussion board has develop into a mannequin program for different states.

“Sandy has positively impacted our group and its citizen Troopers and Airmen all through her greater than 38 years of devoted service to the Minnesota Nationwide Guard,” stated Manke. “This influence can have a ripple impact for years to come back because of the management qualities she exemplifies and her affect on establishing packages throughout her tenure.”

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