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- Retired Lieutenant General Nadja West is the 44th Army Surgeon General and the former commanding general of U.S. Army Medical Command (USAMEDCOM). In 2015, West became the first African American woman three-star general in the Army’s history, and is currently the highest-ranking woman to ever graduate from West Point.
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Nadja Yudith West (née Grammer; March 20, 1961) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and the 44th Surgeon General of the United States Army and former Commanding General of the United States Army Medical Command.
- 1982–2019
- Lieutenant General
Timeline. Profiles. News. Profiles of Bravery. Lt. Gen. Nadja West. 2016: First black female lieutenant general and the highest-ranking woman to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy....
After a U.S. Senate confirmation on Dec. 9, 2015, West became the first African American – man or woman — to be appointed surgeon general of the U.S. Army. The position of surgeon general comes with a third star, making West the first African American female lieutenant general.
Dr. Nadja West, age 61, retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of Lieutenant General in October 2019. She served as the 44th Army Surgeon General, and the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Medical Command from 2015 to 2019, overseeing the highest medical readiness and battlefield wound survival rates in history.
Lieutenant General (ret) Nadja West is the 44th Surgeon General of the US Army and the former Commanding General of the US Army Medical Command (USAMEDCOM). In 2015 West became the first African American woman in the Army’s history to achieve the rank of Lieutenant General, and the highest-ranking woman graduate of the United States Military ...
Monumental Achievement: Retired Lieutenant General Nadja West is a trailblazer. She was the first African American Army Surgeon General, the first African American woman to become an Army three-star general, and the highest-ranking woman graduate from West Point.
In 2013, West became the second black female major general. On December 11, 2015, West was promoted to lieutenant general by the Senate and she became the 44th Army Surgeon General. This made West the Army’s first black Surgeon General, the Army’s first black woman to hold the rank of lieutenant general and the Army’s highest ranking ...
