Arkansas Air National Guard has its 1st female general

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ROBINSON MANEUVER TRAINING CENTER, N. Little Rock, Ark.:–COL (BG Select) Tamhra Hutchins Frye speaks during the Arkansas National Guard Equal Opportunity Office Diversity Day at Chappell Armory, Wednesday, May 18, 2016. The event was an opportunity to celebrate the diversity of the Total Force and embrace who we are and who we aren’t regardless of race, gender, nationality, religion, or disability. More than 70 Soldiers were provided with information about diversity, a taste of cultural entertainment and ethnic foods and displays with information about Native Americans, Asians, African Americans, Black History, Martin Luther King Jr., the Holocaust, LGBT people, Hispanics and Women’s History.

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Air National Guard has its first female general.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that during a ceremony Saturday at Camp Robinson in North Little Rock, 55-year-old Tamhra Hutchins-Frye of Hot Springs Village was promoted to brigadier general.

Hutchins-Frye joined the Arkansas Air National Guard in 1984 and is now the director of joint staff. She has been deployed once — to Afghanistan in 2013 — and said she hopes for at least one more deployment and to get one more star on her uniform, making her a two-star general.

The first female brigadier general on the Army side of the Arkansas National Guard is Gen. Patricia Anslow, who received her promotion in 2012.

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